erikred | SIM Answers

The Statistically Improbable Meme is back here.

Answers here:

1. clam beer, eternal rainbow, cloud wall: Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
2. hundred piastres, retired baker, dear viscount: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (which inspired

palecur's guess)
3. folding bedroom, old orrery, imaginary study: Litte, Big by John Crowley
4. tormented writer, productive writer, gathering shadow [If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino, identified by

missludmilla]
5. pirate city, haunted quarter, possibility mining [The Scar by China Mieville, identified by

alfvaen]
6. unicorn skull, chubby granddaughter, shuffled data [Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami, identified by

abazureonna]
7. tangents paper, rarefying engine, cabinet noir: Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
8. purring voice, little revolver: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (tough one, too few SIPs)
9. terrible island, zero winter, fabulous thing: The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
10. pale suit, buffalo man, coin tricks [American Gods by Neil Gaiman, identified by

ronebofh]