{"id":12923,"date":"2015-07-04T05:30:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T09:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=12923"},"modified":"2015-07-03T14:32:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T18:32:18","slug":"the-best-opening-lines-from-crime-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=12923","title":{"rendered":"The Best Opening Lines from Crime Novels"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sam Wiebe and Eric Beetner<\/strong><\/a> got together to discuss some of their favorite crime novels’ opening lines.<\/p>\n

It’s interesting reading and while we’re at it, here are three of my favs…<\/p>\n

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“They threw me off the hay truck about noon.”\u00a0 <\/strong>– James M. Cain<\/strong>, The Postman Always Rings Twice <\/em><\/p>\n

“I turned the Chrysler onto the Florida Turnpike with Rollo Kramer’s headless body in the trunk, and all the time I’m thinking I should have put some plastic down.”\u00a0 <\/strong>– Victor Gischler<\/strong>, Gun Monkeys <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0“I poisoned your drink.” <\/strong>– Duane Swierczynski<\/strong>, The Blonde <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Sam Wiebe and Eric Beetner got together to discuss some of their favorite crime novels’ opening lines. It’s interesting reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,52,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-crime","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12924,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12923\/revisions\/12924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}