| Each of the phrases explored are things that we still often say today — but we don't always know the history behind them, and it turns out that they all have racist undertones | Due to the length, certain very small scenes were a tad confusing if only because the cut into them seemed random, but they soon became clear |
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| I am glad Ed McBain wasn't encouraged to kill him off early in the series | Absolutely a long-time favorite movie |
McBain still has a habit of including perhaps a bit too much of the penal code in the narrative and he occasionally wanders a bit too far off on a tangent, but those are small complaints.
| It's an important reminder that subtle racism can sneak its way into our everyday lives without us even realizing it, and much of it goes back to with the language we unthinkingly use | According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Drannan used the phrase to describe an encounter with a Native American he had previously met, "I knew he had recognized me |
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| Blind since Vietnam and married to a blind woman as well, James realizes his disability pension and her part-time job go only so far | About the Author Ed McBain was one of the pen names of successful and prolific crime fiction author Evan Hunter 1926—2005 |
The novelist Raymond Chandler used it in more than one of his books.