Finished reading: In the Best Families by Rex Stout π
It has this great line about a cop:
No doubt life was hard for him β born with the instincts of a Hitler or Stalin in a country where people are determined to do their own voting.
Finished reading: In the Best Families by Rex Stout π
It has this great line about a cop:
No doubt life was hard for him β born with the instincts of a Hitler or Stalin in a country where people are determined to do their own voting.
Finished reading: The Assassination Bureau, Ltd. by Jack London π
The concept: a secret society of assassins carries out “socially useful” murders, but is convinced to accept a commission to kill its own leader. Wonderful turn of the century story with dandy anarchist overtones.