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HAVING DISCUSSED the price of cheesecake earlier that day, we decided to enter the bakery stall that we found on the second floor of the Boylston Street Garage. We had been combing most of the stores in the Garage, looking for a birthday present...
Having long since finished our samples of the cheesecake more expensive than its weight in gold, we left the stall...
...their own. They got together a team of four psychologists and two psychiatrists, who gave them round-the-clock advice on how they should deal with the emotionally unstable prisoners. It was the team's idea to give in to all the minor demands of the convicts and stall on all the major ones, waiting for them to wear out under the strain. When the convicts least expected it, the psychologists advised, the police should do something to create maximum confusion-and then burst through the doors...
...million. Back at the stable, keeping the champ happy takes considerably more than oats. Allez France demands the camaraderie of Merry Lord, a horse who leads the morning workouts, dotes on the champion and lets her bite him and bump him around. Trainer Angel Penna has thoughtfully equipped her stall with soothing Mozart on stereo. And that's not all. There is someone special in the winner's life too: a sheep, called simply le mouton, with whom Allez France has shared her musical tastes, and her paddock box, for years...
...promising heir to the tough, taut Hammett-Chandler tradition. But suddenly he glimpsed the comic potential of tossing the sand of petty frustrations and human fallibility into the well-oiled machinery of the thriller. Nonviolent, Runyonesque crooks could become the victims, and everyday life the culprit. Getaway cars could stall, crucial phone numbers could slip the mind, a paralyzing snowstorm could fall on the day of a planned bank heist...