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Available
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Publication
New York: Popular Library, 1968
User reviews
LibraryThing member MrsLee
This was a very fun mystery. Somehow I felt as if I was watching a black and white 1940's movie farce while I read it. The detective, a very subdued owner of a boys school in New England, has hidden depths. David Niven would play him well. The story builds and builds, or perhaps I should say,
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deconstructs. Things go from bad to bizarre as the man tries to resolve the problems whirling about him. The Hollow Chest made me laugh out loud several times, I didn't want to put it down, not so much because of the suspense, but because of the pleasure I was having in the reading. Show Less
LibraryThing member antiquary
Leonidas Witherall, aka Bill Sjakespeare, comes hoer and finds his house torn up and a woman tied up on his ed.
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1941
Physical description
160 p.; 18 cm