A Client Is Cancelled

by Richard & Frances Lockridge | Mystery & Thrillers |
ISBN: 1560542993 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingSqueakyChuwing of Rockville, Maryland USA on 3/1/2023
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Journal Entry 1 by wingSqueakyChuwing from Rockville, Maryland USA on Wednesday, March 1, 2023
This hardcover (c. 1951) came to the Little Free Library of Twinbrook (#7720) from two boxes of books donated by my generous neighbor on Ardennes Avenue in February, 2023. Thank you so much!

Journal Entry 2 by wingSqueakyChuwing at LFL - Vandegrift Ave (5811) (#7720) in Rockville, Maryland USA on Monday, March 6, 2023

Released 1 yr ago (3/6/2023 UTC) at LFL - Vandegrift Ave (5811) (#7720) in Rockville, Maryland USA

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

I'm releasing this book for...

***The 2023 4 Elements Release Challenge hosted by GoryDetails. The authors' names contains the word RIDGE.

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Enjoy the book!

Journal Entry 3 by wingSqueakyChuwing at Rockville, Maryland USA on Sunday, March 12, 2023
I selected this book from the Little Free Library of Twinbrook (#7720) to travel elsewhere...

Released 1 yr ago (3/18/2023 UTC) at Potbelly Sandwich Works (Carlyle Center) in Alexandria, Virginia USA

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

I'm releasing this book at a BCinDC Meetup. This Potbelly has a book exchange shelf!

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Journal Entry 5 by wing6of8wing at Silver Spring, Maryland USA on Tuesday, March 21, 2023
This book came home from meet-up with me and has been set aside for the upcoming book festival.

Released 11 mos ago (4/23/2023 UTC) at Day Of The Book (Street Festival) On Howard Avenue in Kensington, Maryland USA

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Journal Entry 7 by wingKateKintailwing at Gaithersburg Book Festival in Gaithersburg, Maryland USA on Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Released 10 mos ago (5/20/2023 UTC) at Gaithersburg Book Festival in Gaithersburg, Maryland USA

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

This book was leftover from the last book festival. It's going to have one more chance at going home with book festival attendees at the Gaithersburg Book Festival.

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Journal Entry 8 by wing6of8wing at Silver Spring, Maryland USA on Tuesday, May 23, 2023
I was unable to attend this year's Gaithersburg Book Festival but am happy to take in some of the leftovers. I will do my best to find them new homes including placement at many local Little Free Libraries that I happen upon. I saw this book in the bag Squeaky gave me and again on the table at Kensington and seriously debated taking it home. I am going to take it as a sign that it showed up in my house without me taking any action.

Journal Entry 9 by wing6of8wing at Silver Spring, Maryland USA on Sunday, December 3, 2023
I was looking for a good candidate for the First Line game which would also be a quick read when I picked up this very old mystery that looked a tad worse for wear (at least the dust jacket). The first line was lightly amusing and seemed rife with implications and I figured it was what I was looking for. And it is short, so why not?

This book was not as easy to read as I was anticipating, although it was quick. I am not sure if some of it is the era in which it was written or merely the style of the authors, but likely both. The whole tone of the book is lightly amusing -- like a 50s rom com -- and rife with implications and half-finished sentences where everyone is expecting the other people (in this case, including the reader) to understand the unspoken meanings. Most of the characters in the book seem quite adept at figuring out what is not being said, but I struggled to fill in the blanks because it was too far outside my experience. Luckily the first person narrator is also a trifle dense and some things are explained to him -- but then he seems to understand a lot of things that are not explicitly addressed because it was expected that everyone would understand them. This young couple shortly after WWII are struggling to get by as writers and happen to be skinny-dipping in a neighbor's pool when they find the body of her wealthy uncle with a bullet hole in him. This makes them clear suspects. The whole thing is very relaxed and hip and casual in many ways but the timeline in the story is very short. Not all of it made sense to me and things that I am sure were hilarious or at least droll at the time of writing are completely baffling now. But still I enjoyed the weird Gatsby-esque world these folks seemed to inhabit, despite driving in a decrepit borrowed car which they called It and which is a secondary character in the entire plot. Not a bad choice for a quick read.

Journal Entry 10 by wing6of8wing at Gaithersburg, Maryland USA on Friday, December 15, 2023

Released 3 mos ago (12/17/2023 UTC) at Gaithersburg, Maryland USA

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

This book will be part of the First Line Game at the BCinDC Holiday Party.

Any future reader or recipient of this book is encouraged to leave a journal entry here on the BookCrossing site to let prior readers know the fate of the book. You can make an anonymous entry without joining the BookCrossing movement, but if you are interested in joining, it is a free and spam-free community where your contact information is not shared with others. Best of all, members receive private messages via e-mail from books like this one when those books are journaled, allowing for long-term relationships between books and readers.

Journal Entry 11 by wingKateKintailwing at Burke, Virginia USA on Thursday, January 4, 2024
I unwrapped this book during BCinDC's annual holiday wrapped book first line game.

This was the first line I couldn't resist: It was one of the more interesting murders of that summer and the Pooh and I almost did not attend.

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