I just finished reading The Scorpio Races today, and all the praises I could sing would be passe - suffice it to say that it is a wonderful, glorious, gripping tale.

 I did want to see if anyone else happened to notice this paragraph the same way I did:

“We both look mournfully in the bakery window as we pass, though I’d sworn to myself that I wouldn’t. Nothing says orphans like two kids breaking their necks looking at trays of November cakes and platters of shaped cookies and lovely soft loaves of bread still steaming the window they’re next to.”

As soon as I read that I thought of The Boxcar Children.  I used to read those ages ago, and the famous opening is:

“One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from… The little boy was looking at the cakes, the big boy was looking at the loaves of bread, and the two girls were looking at the cookies.”  The children are orphans.

So that particular paragraph in The Scorpio Races just screamed out to me as a reference to The Boxcar Children.

Does anybody else think so? I hope I’m not being crazy here…