A Gun for Sale A Gun for Sale A Gun For Sale is a 1936 novel by Graham Greene about a criminal called Raven, a man dedicated to ugly deeds. When he is paid, with stolen notes, for killing the Minister of War, he becomes a man on the run. Tracking down the agent who double-crossed him, and eluding the police simultaneously, he becomes both the hunter and the hunted. The novel was published and filmed in the United States under the title "This Gun For Hire". The novel prefigures Greene's later, more famous, work, "Brighton Rock", wherein Pinkie Brown's killing of Hale sets
It Wasn't Meant to Happen It Wasn't Meant to Happen "It Wasn't Meant to Happen" is the 43rd episode of the ABC television series, "Desperate Housewives". It was the 20th episode of the show's second season. The episode was written by Marc Cherry and Tom Spezialy and directed by Larry Shaw. It aired on April 30, 2006. Due to time constraints, the opening credits were cut. In the beginning of this episode we see how many women Karl Mayer succeeded to leave without being noticed (in the morning he would say a prayer asking God to let him leave without being noticed, then leave a