On 10 Sep 96, 08:25pm, James Mcneill wrote to Myrl Pardee
on the subject of "LIVING FOREVER":
 >    Forgive me for intruding with my two cents worth.
 >    I once read a novel, both author and title now forgotten, where the 
 >    hero carried "a Browning automatic." No problem. Somewhere around page 
 >    50, our hero commenced to reload, and "swung the cylinder out..."
 >    I didn't get to the end of the sentance before it hit me that a 
 >    Browning has no cylinder. The illusion that had been so carefully 
 >    built burst like a soap bubble. I tried to keep going, but disbelief 
 >    set in too deep.
In one novel, Ariadne Oliver, Agatha Christie's "detective" who
is most clearly her alter ego, mentions the fussiness of readers
who write in to complain that a revolver in one chapter has
become an automatic in another, and the difficulty of the poor
crime writer who has to remember what she wrote and know the
difference.
 >    A few chapters later, I tossed it in the trash. Too bad. Other
 >    than that one mistake, it might have been a decent book.
Christie's expertise was toxocology.
We tend to forget it, but Ian Fleming made several howlers about
James Bond's gun in the first few novels.
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