unearths some literary gems.
From short stories by Charlotte MacLeod:
***...a tin of a mysterious powder represented as "Mustache Strengthener"...***[He] had courteously declined the Order of the Gauntleted Gnu and requested a certified cheque.***[The cast of characters in one story includes the following.]The Honourable Ermentine Ditherby-StoatA. Lysander HellespontCadwallader SwiveltreeThe Earl of CantileverMiss Twiddle***[Bonus: One of the blurbs on the back claims that MacLeod's "fans grow with every new book she writes." Not the number of fans, mark you, but the fans themselves! Perhaps that blurb was originally intended for a children's author--or maybe a self-help guru.]
