Books and BipedsArgus Books, 1947 - 258 pages "In a word, 'Books and Bipeds' is for the most part a selection of paragraphs from my weekly book column in the "Chicago Sunday Tribune'..." -- foreword. |
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Page 82
... mystery stories in the world would satisfy my soul as much as anything else I can think of . " There may be readers in the Mystery League who think that already he has done so . While I can not agree with them , I confess that I should ...
... mystery stories in the world would satisfy my soul as much as anything else I can think of . " There may be readers in the Mystery League who think that already he has done so . While I can not agree with them , I confess that I should ...
Page 127
... mystery and suspense . No story was ever as good as I once believed The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings to be . A Note on Translators Translators are an unappreciated race . They are not included in biographical dictionaries unless they ...
... mystery and suspense . No story was ever as good as I once believed The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings to be . A Note on Translators Translators are an unappreciated race . They are not included in biographical dictionaries unless they ...
Page 152
... mystery will follow as surely as the night the day ; in time , no doubt , there will be a small library on the subject and a variorum Finnegan will run to many volumes . Probably the game will take its place beside those other scholarly ...
... mystery will follow as surely as the night the day ; in time , no doubt , there will be a small library on the subject and a variorum Finnegan will run to many volumes . Probably the game will take its place beside those other scholarly ...
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