SLSL "Swamp Wench"

[Dave Monroe]

First off, something I just stumbled across ...

"Wild and beautiful- she was as deadly as the untamed
swamp that spawned her."

http://www.nwrain.net/~monlux/SwampBabe.html

http://www.nwrain.net/~monlux/coverindex.html

And Spillane I know only via Robert Aldritch's
nigh-unto-satirical adaptation, Kiss Me Deadly (1955;
and cf. there at LEAST the ending of David Lynch's
Lost Highway [1997], not to mention that suitcase in
Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction [1994]), but ...

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/spillane.htm

http://www.interlog.com/~roco/hammer.html

--- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> Sounds like swamp writing might have inspired Mickey
> Spillane. He was contemporaneous with the genre.
> First novel in about '47 (from memory) was _I The
> Jury_. Pretty sure it had some kind of swamp wench
> in it.

Well, let us know ...

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