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STILL DEAD is a detective-story by a rare writer who is not only a master of the craft but is also a master of the English, language. Set in Scotland, it tells how young Colin Reiver, recklessly driving a new sports car, is responsible for a fatal accident to a child, but is acquitted at law.
Eugene Hastain created some of the most evocative jacket artwork of the Golden Age period
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A Guide to Collecting Books Published By Hodder & Stoughton
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Gregory Spring-Benson was an idle young man with no fixed desire to do anything — except possibly to drink Burgundy, for which he had a nice taste. The harsh reality of life, the necessity to do something in order to survive, he contrived to avoid by being incredibly self-centred and impervious to the criticism of his friends and the abuse of his creditors.
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Richard Hull was born on 6th September, 1896, and educated at Rugby, obtaining a mathematical exhibition on leaving. The First World War prevented his going to Cambridge.
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Information about the writer Dilwyn Rees
Real name Glyn Edmund Daniel was born 23 April 1914 and died in 1986
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