Author: Thelma Adams

Cites

• Raymond Chandler (1)
  • IN: Playdate (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Those hot dry winds that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen.
    FROM: Red Wind, (1938), Short Story, US
• Lee Child (1)
  • IN: Playdate (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The township itself was twenty miles (32km) west of the Santa Ana Mountains, where the infamous winds came from. Time to time they blew in, dry, warm, steady... He had seen minor barroom brawls end up as first-degree homicides. He had seen burnt toast end up in wife-beating and prison and divorce. He had seen a guy get bludgeoned to the ground for walking too slow on the sidewalk.
    FROM: Bad Luck and Trouble, (2007), Novel, UK
• Anonymous Canadian tourist (1)
  • IN: Playdate (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It's hotter than we expected, eh?
    FROM: San Diego Wild Animal Park, (None), NULL, Canada