I had thought not to go to Abids last Sunday as I had to go to a faraway place to attend a marriage that was at noon. It would take me more than an hour to go to the venue which meant that I would have to skip the visit to Abids. But I did not want to as there was no point in being at the marriage at the correct time. I thought the marriage wouldn’t go ahead if I wasn’t there so I decided to first go to Abids and do a quick round of browsing before leaving for the marriage.
As planned, I was at Abids at my usual time but since I had limited time I checked only a few sellers. I had seen a copy of ‘Embers’ by Sandor Marai the other Sunday but had not bought it since I already have a copy. But I wanted to buy this copy too but unfortunately, I couldn’t find it with the seller. Instead, I spotted another new crime fiction title by an author I hadn’t heard about. Since it was a Penguin title I decided to take it. It was a copy of ‘The Crooked Man’ by Philip Davison that I got for fifty rupees.
The seller did not have change for the hundred-rupee note I gave him so I decided to buy another book for fifty rupees. The second book I picked up was a copy of ‘Writing for Pleasure and Profit’ by Michael Legat, a name I had heard and read about many times in books on writing.
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