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in reading the crime novels of America, that the millionaire was taken as a type and not an individual. This is the great difference; that America recognises rich crooks as a class.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • What I Saw in America


a gentleman with beautiful black hair and whiskers,
Charles Dickens • David Copperfield
Father Matthew Mackie
Richard Osman • The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel (A Thursday Murder Club Mystery Book 1)
"Would you have a Ben Hur, 1860, Third Edition, the one with the duplicated line on page 116?"
Raymond Chandler • The Big Sleep
Brooks of Sheffield,’
Charles Dickens • David Copperfield

New York, and I prowled around our apartment in the early morning dark looking for Cary Grant’s old pretzels. I was so hungry, I would have eaten anyone’s old pretzels, but the odds on finding my fellow Fabergé director’s were better because Cary has lent Luisa and me his 27th-floor apartment in the Warwick Hotel while we are in New York.