Murder in Any Degree. Owen Johnson

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       Owen Johnson

      Murder in Any Degree

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066196462

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       ILLUSTRATIONS

       MURDER IN ANY DEGREE

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       II

       III

       ONE HUNDRED IN THE DARK

       A COMEDY FOR WIVES

       THE LIE

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       EVEN THREES

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       II

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       A MAN OF NO IMAGINATION

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       II

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       IV

       V

       VI

       VII

       LARRY MOORE

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       MY WIFE'S WEDDING PRESENTS

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       THE SURPRISES OF THE LOTTERY

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       II

       III

       IV

       THE END

ILLUSTRATIONS

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       "I'll come here, I'll be your model, I'll sit for you by the hour"

       From his tone the group perceived that the hazards had brought to him some abrupt coincidence

       Rantoul, … decorating his ankles with lavender and black

       Our Lady of the Sparrows

       "Oh, tell me, little ball, is it ta-ta or good-by?"

       Wild-eyed and hilarious they descended on the clubhouse with the miraculous news

       A committee carefully examined the books of the club

       "You gave him—the tickets! The Lottery Tickets!"

MURDER IN ANY DEGREE

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      One Sunday in March they had been marooned at the club, Steingall the painter and Quinny the illustrator, and, having lunched late, had bored themselves separately to their limits over the periodicals until, preferring to bore each other, they had gravitated together in easy arm-chairs before the big Renaissance fireplace.

      Steingall, sunk in his collar, from behind the black-rimmed spectacles, which, with their trailing ribbon of black, gave a touch of Continental elegance to his cropped beard and colonel's mustaches, watched without enthusiasm the three mammoth logs, where occasional tiny flames