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1. Charles Roth MPC (encycl@vox.a2c3.co)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2014 02:39:36 UTC Charles Roth MPC

   Rereading Sherlock Holmes:
   Found this at a library sale for $.50 #thriftprivateer
   
   I love this “action” cover from Penguin Books 1981
   
   
   
   Ronald Adair was fond of cards—playing continually, but never for such stakes as would hurt him. He was a member of the Baldwin, the Cavendish, and the Bagatelle card clubs. It was shown that, after dinner on the day of his death, he had played a rubber of whist at the latter club. He had also played there in the afternoon. The evidence of those who had played with him—Mr. Murray, Sir John Hardy, and Colonel Moran—showed that the game was whist, and that there was a fairly equal fall of the cards. Adair might have lost five pounds, but not more. His fortune was a considerable one, and such a loss could not in any way affect him.
   —The Empty House in The Return of Sherlock Holmes http://ur1.ca/idfny by Arthur Conan Doyle

   • Charles Roth MPC (encycl@vox.a2c3.co)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2014 03:34:24 UTC Charles Roth MPC

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     The pugnacious cover http://vox.a2c3.co/attachment/369