- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Witherall returns home after escorting the Fifth Form on their annual outing--a day informally known as "Egg Day." While the point is to have a field trip that involves a rousing game of Fox and Hounds (with one boy playing the fox), every good fifth former knows to conceal eggs about his person because somebody, somewhere along the way is going to need a good egging.
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Classical in form, resolved, cool and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Phoebe Atwood Taylor
- First published
- 1941
- Pages
- 284
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Company Inc., Popular Library, Countryman Pr
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9789997533302
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Phoebe Atwood Taylor, born in 1909 in Boston, Massachusetts, was the first member of her family to have been born off Cape Cod in more than 300 years. Upon graduating from Manhattan's Barnard College, she moved to Weston, Massachusetts, to pen her first work, *The Cape Cod Mystery* (1931), which was published when she was 22. The book was written while Taylor was caring for her invalid aunt, Alice Tilton (the source of one of her two publishing pseudonyms, the other being Freeman Dana). Taylor was one of the first mystery writers to give a regional and rural rather than urban focus during the time known as the "golden age" of mystery writing (1918 - 1939). *Gone with the Wind*'s author, Marg
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