andrew vachss, chandler and james elroy set off my cool moments detector often... very few things in books top the chandler line 'she had a body that would make a bishop kick in a stained glass window' (or something extremely close) andy > > > > Except for pretty good prose, _TI_ does zilch for me - anyone care to > > enlighten me? FWIW, _Creatures of Light and Darkness_ is high on my list. > > > > Not sure I can enlighten you, but, for me, when Conrad says, "Feathers or > lead?" made my heart drop and set off my Cool Moment Detectors like nothing > else in literature with the possible exception of M de Beaufort's escape > from Vincennes. >