The Peg-leg and the Parrot: ATU's literary game

This fun quiz is due for a revival.

This was the rather inauspicious start:

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...but it proved to be a big hit.

I've got no idea where we are with the present sets of clues, though- after all the recent drama.

Anyone care to start us up on the brand new site?

in case you missed it ^ - bump...

...first picture has gone but I think it was James Brown hugging a microphone...is it a song? Is it Rock around the Clock?

James and his mic? Yes. Rock Around The Clock? Nope

...Jim Brown's 'The Clock is Ticking'?

Novel.

Spaghetti Junction wrote:Either Paradise Lost or East of Eden...

Paradise Lost.

This one might be a little hard.

A twentieth-century American novel.

I tried to find a picture of a closetful of shirts, which would be another clue.

Bump for all you puzzlers out there in the ATU - erm, universe. Two (count 'em!) puzzles to solve!

Spaghetti Junction wrote:Do you perhaps have a tiny little extra clue for yours?

Erm ... right: British author.

And the combination of the time on St Stephen's Tower clock and the pyrotechnic display may be significant...

Spaghetti Junction wrote:Do you perhaps have a tiny little extra clue for yours?

The action takes place on Long Island. The narrator goes there from the Midwest.

The people he gets involved with are wealthy.

There is an important car accident, and someone dies at the end.

So that photo is Long Island Sound as seen from East Egg?

And maybe 3 people die in the end?