"Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter"

[fiefoe]

If so tasked, I would have imagined Lima as a cousin of Panama, and what I know of that mostly came from "The Tailor of Panama", the movie version. But this is altogether different. Instead of cloak-and-dagger, the key prop is 'my enormous ancient Remington, a big hulk of a hearse invulnerable to the ravages of time'. It was the 50s, when radio soap dramas reigned supreme and scripts were imported from Havana by the ton. (Nostalgia note: there was a show called "Precinct 803" in my youth. That it was on after lights-out made it irresistible.)

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Folks at amazon have come up with a new toy - 'Statistically Improbable Phrases'. (From this book: thousand soles, medical detail man.) The SIP I'd pick today (from imdb): a shabby-genteel pimp.