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The Mankiller of Poojegai and other stories

Stories ranging from Stone Age Germany to 19th century Italy to currrent day Africa.

Crippen & Landru, August 2007

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Walter Satterthwait - Darlene

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Correspondence from Darlene, Walter Satterthwait's
Exclusive Executive Secretary and Personal Information Manager

Dear Miss Theis,

Hi, it's me, Darlene, Mr. Satterthwait's Exclusive Executive Secretary and Personal Information Manager! Mr. Satterthwait told me all about how you put together a fabulous webbed page for him, and I think it's just FANTASTIC that Mr. Satterthwait has a webbed page of his own, just like General Motors and General Mills and General Colin Powell!

Mr. Satterthwait asked me to send you these photographs, which were taken while Mr. Satterthwait was in France, getting the FABULOUS French literary prize, the Prix du Roman d'Aventures (which means the price of adventures in Rome, which is what the prize is worth in money, I guess), from his French publishers, Le Masque! This prize is even better than the Noble Prize, because there are no politics involved, like there always is in Copenhagen where those Swedish people don't like Mr. Satterthwait because he's taller than they are! The people at Le Masque only give out this award to really, really AMAZING books, like Mr. Satterthwait's INCREDIBLE book ICECAPADE, which they gave it to this year! This happened in Paris, France, in May!

Okay, this first picture shows Mr. Satterthwait holding up his INCREDIBLE book ICECAPADE for a French photographer with a bald spot.

Mr. Satterthwait is wearing the famous cowboy boots that all the French people were so crazy about, but the photographer is in the way, so you can't see them very well.

I don't know what all those books in the background are, in that big refrigerator.

Okay. Here's the next photo.

This is a picture of Mr. Satterthwait with some other people. That's his French editor, Helene Almaric of Le Masque, on the left, and that's Sarah Caudwell, the famous English mystery writer, on the right. Miss Caudwell is showing off the wonderful new corncob pipe that Mr. Satterthwait bought for her and carried all the way from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Paris, France, so he could give it to her there. Behind Miss Caudwell, and to the right, is the back of the famous President of France, Charles DeGaulle, and peeking over Mr. DeGaulle's shoulder, trying to get a better look at Mr. Satterthwait, the hussy, is the famous retired movie actress who likes animals, Brigitte Bardot.

Okay. This is Mr. Satterthwait with some other people again.

The man in the brown suit is the famous French philosopher and writer, John Paul Sartre, and the woman is his girl friend, Simone De Boudoir, who also writes, I think. In the background, eating a finger, is the famous French actor Jean Paul Belmondo. (Mr. Satterthwait told me that all French people have the middle name "Paul", even the women.) I don't know who the other people are, but one of them is probably the famous American actor Charles Bronson, who's very big in France, even though he's pretty short here in America, Mr. Satterthwait says, and who was definitely there at the fantastic award ceremony in Paris.

So there you are. And, by the way, I'm CERTAIN that Mr. Satterthwait's UNBELIEVABLE new book, ACCUSTOMED TO THE DORK, which is one of his famous Joshua Craft books, will win the same award, because Mr. Satterthwait read parts of it to me while I was chipping the paint off the top of the chiffonier and I got so moved by it (the book, I mean, not the paint-chipping) that I fell off and fractured a tibia!

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Darlene