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Before Perry Mason, Nero Wolfe, and Philip Marlowe, there was the crime-fighter who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men.

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In the crisp sentences of Wodehouse and the wry scenarios of Jerome, one author finds the escape she needs.

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