tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9100001220947256423.post3314216960917519796..comments2024-02-01T09:41:09.487+01:00Comments on Death Can Read: Patrick Quentin : The Jack of Diamonds, 1936Pietro De Palmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06051060020493340331noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9100001220947256423.post-12307852662023369442013-01-21T11:38:06.344+01:002013-01-21T11:38:06.344+01:00I also think that this is their first work, as the...I also think that this is their first work, as the entire bill of the short story is quite sour. There are good, sometimes great ideas (that of the burn is brilliant), and there are also scarce ideas: two people who fall in love in another two minutes and a little more and decide to get married; you say about skating night. Then there is the issue of gun: the gun was taken from the victim. One carries a gun because he wants to serve or offense (the murderer) or defense (the cop), but the first shot in what is prejudice? Would only serve if he planned the action before going to the reception, but the victim did not know anything about the plot. Even in the case where the shot blank was inserted after into the charger, why the victim would have brought with him?<br />There are flaws who show that the story was an early work of the two, still immature, not fully filed. In my opinion, obviously.<br />Pietro De Palmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06051060020493340331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9100001220947256423.post-24574336441864287012013-01-21T05:25:04.004+01:002013-01-21T05:25:04.004+01:00I reviewed this two years ago, Pietro. Here's ...I reviewed this two years ago, Pietro. Here's the <a href="http://prettysinister.blogspot.com/2011/07/q-patrick-pseudonym-enigma.html" rel="nofollow">link.</a> I thought it was OK, a bit too familiar with callous characters some of whom seem sociopathic. And the entire plot is illogical. A skating party at night? Unsafe and foolish.<br /><br />I have a large collection of Q. Patrick stories as they were first published in <i>The American Magazine</i>. "Jack of Diamonds" first appeared in Nov. 1936, by the way. It looks like it could very well be the first Wheeler/Webb collaboration. I would love to dig up info on the lives of those two men, how they met and began their writing duo.J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.com