BEER: Epigraph -

[Mark Kohut]

yes to all you write....and announces the book as a comic caper---Westlake noted for comic mysteries.
Not unimportant as we read and say it is social realism of a sort. As some have said. 

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BE - Epigraph: 

"New York as a character in a mystery would not be the detective, would not be the murderer.  It would be the enigmatic suspect who knows the real story but isn't going to tell it."
Donald E. Westlake - 

Westlake was a prolific and highly regarded crime writer - capers mostly - popular in the late 20th and very early 21st centuries.  He wrote under a number of pseudonyms. 

Interesting epigraph and I think it sets the tone and setting for the book nicely.  Is it possible that NYC is the "enigmatic" suspect?  Not for 9/11 but possibly for other crimes in there.  More likely NY could "possibly" be the narrator. 

Just a thought -  (I like Epigraphs.) 

Bekah








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