Cocktail Talk: Eye Witness
We’ve had a number of brandy drinks here lately (just see the last few posts!), and they reminded me of the below quote from the George Harmon Coxe book Eye Witness, featuring photographer/mystery-solver Kent Murdoch, who can throw punches, talk smoothly with the ladies, drink it up, and snap memorable pics. All at once! Even with all that, I wouldn’t say George H. Coxe is like at the top echelon of Spiked Punch posted authors, but he can spin a swell yarn, as they say. And one with brandy!
Murdock asked Leone if she would have a brandy. She thought a B&B would be fine so he had the brandy. Only then, when the waiter took the other things away, was Murdock able to sit back and give his attention completely to his companion.
‘That was all right,’ he said.
‘Marvelous.’
She was watching him now, the faint flush in her cheeks giving her a new radiance that was attractive and promising. The cocktails had apparently done their work well for she seemed relaxed and at ease, content; it seemed to leave the next move up to him.
—Eye Witness, George Harmon Coxe
