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 62
... story - tellers of old China were telling tall tales of criminal investigation and solution , in which scholars if they care to - may pretend to find the seeds of the modern detective - story . Their investi- gators , for the most part ...
... story - tellers of old China were telling tall tales of criminal investigation and solution , in which scholars if they care to - may pretend to find the seeds of the modern detective - story . Their investi- gators , for the most part ...
Page 77
... story , " The Smoking Leg , " available - if it is not out of print - in a volume of the same name published , I think , by Doubleday - Doran . I don't mean that this story is the best murder story I have read , although it is a good ...
... story , " The Smoking Leg , " available - if it is not out of print - in a volume of the same name published , I think , by Doubleday - Doran . I don't mean that this story is the best murder story I have read , although it is a good ...
Page 123
... story ended and , because such things are important , she grew up wondering about it . Once in a Sears - Roe- buck catalogue ( or maybe it was a Montgomery Ward catalogue , she isn't sure ) , she saw some men- tion of a book named The ...
... story ended and , because such things are important , she grew up wondering about it . Once in a Sears - Roe- buck catalogue ( or maybe it was a Montgomery Ward catalogue , she isn't sure ) , she saw some men- tion of a book named The ...
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