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Classical in form, cool, unpretentious and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Jack Vance
- First published
- 1966
- Pages
- 218
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group, Limited, Ace Books, Avalon
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- German, English, Russian
- ISBN
- 9781619471191
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John Holbrook "Jack" Vance was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer. Though most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance, he also wrote 11 mystery novels using his full name John Holbrook Vance, three under the pseudonym Ellery Queen, and one each using the pseudonyms Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, and Jay Kavanse.
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