![]() I should probably mention the giant snarling devil dog that follows her everywhere too. Also, it turns out she’s a burlesque dancer in a seedy club and she’s jealously protected by her oily “theatrical agent” Doc Greene. Granted, he catches that glimpse right after a maniac tries to kill her. Maybe there is something fundamentally nice about the story, despite the author’s caveat, because Sweeney quickly starts turning his life around after he catches a glimpse of Yolanda Lang, the girl of his dreams. It’s about a drunk named Sweeney, a former newspaper reporter now living on the streets of Chicago and scrounging change to buy drinks. I can’t pretend to top that for brevity or accuracy, but I’ll try to give you a little more detail. There’s murder before the story proper starts, and murder after it ends the actual story begins with a naked woman and ends with one, which is a good opening and a good ending, but everything between isn’t nice. It’s got murder in it, and women and liquor and gambling and even prevarication. ![]() In the fourth paragraph of The Screaming Mimi Fredric Brown gives us a pretty solid review of his own book: ![]()
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