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Aug 04 2012

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Posted by Dorian in PBBC

Too Many Murderers, 1955 ed, Manning Lee Stokes
(original title The Crooked Circle)
I feel like that’s an adage waiting for a second half…that, or emblematic of how paperback publishers tended to ruin nicely symbolic and metaphorical titles with aggressively literal replacements.

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