unearths some literary gems.
From The Pleasure Cruise Mystery, by Robin Forsythe:
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"And I deduce--it's not often I condescend to deduce--that the one that belonged to Maureen was the cinnamon and white diamond affair."
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"She may have used ordinary saliva [as an invisible ink]...."
"By Jove, fancy getting one's information straight from the mare's mouth so to speak. The process explains the phrase 'spitting it out' and makes x's a fair approximation to kisses."
[That "By Jove" speech--apart from the "by Jove" itself--reads to me like it's straight out of the Conley - Caws-Elwitt correspondence!]
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"She reminds me of a hansom cab. I can't explain why, Algernon."
