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Guide When the Women Come Out to Dance   So there's this former
rock star whose house has burned down in a fire that ravaged a
rich Californian subdivision. Her husband's already dead, and
she hated all those Asian (you can't say oriental) antiques
anyway. Problem is, there are some suspicious circumstances.
What will insurance agent Joe Caravan do? Have her arrested or
accept her offer to split the settlement? The outcome of
"Sparks," the opening story in this collection, is a bit iffy.
We are in Elmore Leonard territory, and everything is a bit
iffy. These characters know how to mess up their lives but good.
Sometimes they're smart about it; sometimes they're so dumb you
have to wonder if their heads hit the linoleum when they were
born. Either way, you laugh or cry, or sometimes just sit there
wondering what gets into the human race.  These characters are
so full of life that you're