I haven’t been able to visit Abids for
more than a month now and am missing all those secondhand books … whether I buy
books there or not, going there and meeting friends and wandering head-bent
along those book-laden roads is itself a thrill … anyway, not that I was
missing books or reading … I had bought some travelogues online and was reading
them (will do a post about them soon) … I was also catching up with those Ross
Macdonald novels that I had purchased earlier … and I used to check www.secondhandbooksindia.com regularly … and a week back something turned
up at this site … a Ross Macdonald novel, The Galton Case … and another John
D. MacDonald novel, One Fearful Yellow Eye, which I didn’t have, was already on
display for quite some time now on the site … and I also saw that two novels by
Simon Brett had surfaced … I selected one of the Brett novels … a ‘Charles
Paris’ novel … Situation Tragedy …
Read The Galton Case already and couldn’t
help laughing at the line that a poet chap, Chad Bolling, throws in the novel …
You can’t make a Hamlet without breaking
egos … too good!!
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