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Classical in form, unpretentious, cool and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Leslie Charteris
- First published
- 1948
- Pages
- 207
- Publisher
- A. Fayard, Pan Bks, Hodder & Stoughton
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9781444766394
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Leslie Charteris was born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin in Singapore, the son of a Chinese physician father and an English mother. He started writing in childhood, creating his own magazine with articles, short stories, poetry, editorials, serials, comic strip. In 1926, he legally changed his last name to Charteris. He wrote his first book, X Esquire (1927), as an undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge. When it was accepted for publication, he left university to became a professional writer. He continued to write thrillers while supporting himself by working odd jobs, including as laborer on a freighter, bartender in a country inn, gold prospector, pearl fisher, tin miner, laborer on a rubbe
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