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Article: The keen-eyed storyteller spins another tall one.(Elmore Leonard's book 'Up in Honey's Room')(Book review)
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
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- May 6, 2007
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Byline: Frank Wilson
May 6--Up in Honey's Room
By Elmore Leonard
Morrow. 304 pp. $25.95
When Walter Schoen and Honey Deal meet after Mass one Sunday morning in 1938, it doesn't take Walter long before he's asking Honey if she thinks there's somebody he looks like. She nails it right off the bat: Walter Schoen is a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler. Walter says that he and the head of the SS were born on the same day in the same hospital. Walter is convinced that Himmler is his twin and that they were separated at birth.
Walter and Honey marry, but -- an important detail -- not in the Church, and by the time Up in Honey's Room ...