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    What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.
    - Mark Twain's Notebook, 1895

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    Bunter is sick.

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    The crossroads demons have been around for a long time

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    Harriet Vane was used to odd and artistic people at parties in Bohemian London, but when her ex-lover was found dead she couldn't help wondering whether a certain bloody awful poet might be more than he seemed.

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    Five Times that Mervyn Bunter Knew His Place

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    “The Zeppo” meets “Gaudy Night”: Slash Edition

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    "No," Harriet Vane said, having given it some thought. "I don't suppose I do believe in spontaneous human combustion."

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    1886
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    What can we know of what awaits us? Sadly, nothing.

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    Viscount Saint-George never meant to make a role model out of his uncle, but somehow Peter wormed himself into Saint-George's conscience.

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    "...Coppicing is a traditional method of woodland management which takes advantage of the fact that many trees make new growth from the stump or roots if cut down. In a coppiced wood, young tree stems are repeatedly cut down to near ground level. In subsequent growth years, many new shoots will emerge, and, after a number of years the coppiced tree, or stool, is ready to be harvested, and the cycle begins again..."

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    Russell must endure an evening among the "bright young things" of 1925.

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    Gherkins had gotten hold of her fountain pen, and was doodling scratchily all over one end of her blotter. “Aunt Mary,” he said thoughtfully, “when you were Winnie’s age, could you climb trees?”

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    Lestrade, Sherlock and John investigate dodgy goings on at a country house cricket match.

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    Castle is not the only author ever to have written from what he knows.

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    Ten drabbles for Charles Parker.

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    An encounter at the end of one career and the beginning of another.

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    Wooster has a reputation for pinching things--necklaces, amber statuettes, umbrellas--a reputation that becomes dashedly awkward when Lord Attenbury's emeralds go missing.

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    2011. Two women are flung together by what seems to be an accident on the Underground. But then the Tube train draws up at a station that was closed in 1932....

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    Jerry has a favour to ask.

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    What if the concert at the end of Gaudy Night had not taken place on a beautiful evening? Peter and Harriet find themselves in the rain.

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