unearths some literary gems.
From Death in Seven Volumes, by Douglas G. Browne:
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[X here is simply the classic "unknown" person in the mystery. But the protagonists' theorizing is getting overly complicated. Thus the caution...]
"We don't want too many Xs knocking about."
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Wadeson's bushy eyebrows, which Fleurette afterwards likened to moustaches in the wrong place, rose slightly.
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"Whew!--if that's how it's pronounced."
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[Literary scholar H. J. Jackson wrote a fascinating 300-page book about the history of marginalia...but mystery author Douglas G. Browne sums the topic up in about twenty words]:
"But they don't find anything—or only the marginal scribbles that learned readers can't resist making. 'See page 42.' 'Bosh!' 'What about Poffenheim?'"
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