Giveaway Days: FOUR books today, FOUR!
Before we get on with today's round of WHO DAT?, just a moment to congratulate Katie, the winner of yesterday's giveaway, Chevy Stevens' NEVER KNOWING. (Katie, please contact me with a mailing address!)
Now, you must know that in exchange for winning all four of these pristine trade paperbacks (with the signature black edging of the series), I expect you to have to put your back into solving today's WHO DAT? I've tried to find a passage not easily found via Google, but also one that would/should be recognizable to this author's readers solely by the style. A passage which you'll have to -- perhaps -- actually guess at, rather than be certain of. Don't be afraid to guess: no one here is going to make fun of you. I won't let them. Remember, you only need to identify the author, not the book.
And because today's round is a bit harder than the others, I'm going to give you an extra day to think about it and research it. Or even beg for a clue. A winner won't be selected until Friday evening, unless no one has guessed correctly, in which case I will provide a second passage from the same author which will almost certainly allow for some correct guesses. A'right? Ready. Set. Go.Oh, wait! Did I mention, please leave your guess in a comment along with an email to contact the lucky winner. Now GO!
"He was a snitch. Not a very good one. But the vast machinery of policing needs a few key ingredients:
a) Ignorance, b) Complicity, c) Poor wages, d) Snitches.
Or so the received wisdom goes. He was what the Americans call 'of challenged stature'. He was short. And he fuckin' hated that."
UPDATE 7/23/2011: THIS ROUND OF WHO DAT? HAS BEEN CONTINUED WITH A SECOND CLUE HERE.
UPDATE 7/24/2011: THIS ROUND OF WHO DAT? IS CONCLUDED.
3 comments:
James Ellroy. saubleb(at)gmail(dot)com
Al Guthrie
With no correct guesses yet, a second clue has been provided in this post.
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