2023/057: Something More than Night — Kim Newman

2023/057: Something More than Night — Kim Newman

People who know magic isn’t real look straight at a ghost and see a flapping bed sheet. They deal with an irrefutable demonstration of how things really are the way an oyster deals with a speck of grit. The truth gets coated in a hard, shiny shell that can be worn proudly. A pearl is a lie you can roll between your teeth. [loc. 488]

A writer of mysteries is summoned to a crime scene: a man is dead, apparently by suicide, in a car that's been driven off a pier. Raymond Chandler (for it is he) can't help noticing parallels to his novel The Big Sleep ( Read more... )