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The mysterious thief leaves only a few clues behind — enormous footprints, glove prints, a strange criss-cross mark on the ground and two torn pieces of paper. The only people in the village with feet big enough to fit the footprints are Mr Goon (the local policeman) and Colonel Cross, neither of whom seem a likely culprit.
Each of the five little pigs mentioned in the nursery rhyme is used as a title for a chapter in the book, corresponding to the five suspects. [8] Agatha Christie used this style of title in other novels, including One, Two, Buckle My Shoe , Hickory Dickory Dock , A Pocket Full of Rye , and Crooked House .
Policeman Bluejay or Babes in Birdland is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright. First published in 1907, Jack Snow considered it one of the best of Baum's works.
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The novel centres on the mystery of who could have set fire to Mr Hick’s cottage. The five children, Larry and Daisy Daykin, Pip and Bets Hilton, and newcomer Frederick Algernon Trotteville (later nicknamed Fatty from his initials), meet at the scene of the fire and end up solving the mystery together.
A Barthelme collection like 'Sixty Stories' is a Whole Earth Catalogue of life in our time." [ 1 ] In The New York Times Book Review , critic John Romano called Barthelme a "comic genius," adding, "The will to please us, to make us sit up and laugh with surprise, is greater than the will to disconcert.
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This collection of detective short stories has a theme connecting the stories, as well, "a group of short detective stories within a detective novel." [5] The collection was well received on publication, with the "merriest collection", [5] with amiable parodies, [6] to one reviewer who was less impressed, saying the stories were "entertaining ...