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the unlikely happened more often than one would be disposed to believe.
Sometimes I think that everybody knows everybody else’s secrets and that they enter into a kind of conspiracy to pretend that they don’t.’
‘A private dick,’
He had to look apologetic so often that it was practically his prevailing cast of countenance.
Inside, it was clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.
He is not quite, as you would say, my cup of tea. He is, in fact, not a cup of tea at all. He is more like one of these American cocktails of the more obscure kind, whose ingredients are highly suspect.’
‘“The time has come, the Walrus said, To talk of many things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, And cabbages and kings. And why the sea is boiling hot And whether pigs have wings.”’
The lame and the halt and the old didn’t live in their own houses any more, attended by a faithful domestic or by some half-witted poor relation glad of a good home. It was a serious setback to criminal investigation.
