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  1. Laurie R. King _ Island of the Mad

    but having an entire policy of 'Us Good, Them Bad' does little more than create a magnet for trouble-makers.
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  2. Laurie R. King _ The Beekeeper's Apprentice

    Holmes, didn't you tell me a few weeks ago that there has been a series of burglaries from inns and public houses in Eastbourne?" "I hardly think two qualifies as a series, Russell. You are interrupting a delicate haemoglobin experiment, you know.
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  3. Laurie R. King _ A Monstrous Regiment of Women

    A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. -RUDYARD KIPLING {1865–1936}
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  4. Laurie R. King _ The Beekeeper's Apprentice

    Isolate her, and however abundant the food or favourable the temperature, she will expire in a few days not of hunger or cold, but of loneliness.
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  5. Laurie R. King _ The Arvon Book of Crime and

    Many writers, good writers who ought to know better, focus so tightly on the structure demanded by a crime story that they lose track of the fact that they are writing a novel. Accusations of both sensationalism and trivialisation are, alas, often justified.
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  6. Laurie R. King _ Island of the Mad

    The response to a festering sore was not to extol its virtues, but to lance the thing and let the poison bleed out.
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  7. Laurie R. King _ Island of the Mad

    Mrs Porter, you see before you the product of an outmoded educational system, which is based upon beating Latin and Greek into a boy's mind before he has a chance to meet the penny-dreadful.
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  8. Laurie R. King _ The Beekeeper's Apprentice

    I looked back to see Holmes mincing within my footsteps, his skirt drawn up to reveal the trousers below. Were it not for the threat hanging over us, I would have given out with a girlish giggle at the sight, but I refrained. I passed the gates with the revolver in my hand, but there was no human there, only a scurry in the dustbins.
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  9. Laurie R. King _ The Beekeeper's Apprentice

    ...and opened his mouth to speak in that precise drawl which is the trademark of the overly educated upper class english gentleman. A high voice: A biting one: definitely an eccentric."
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  10. Laurie R. King _ Island of the Mad

    Lady Molly, perhaps?
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  11. Laurie R. King _ Locked Rooms

    And why was this third dream still with me, lingering at my shoulder like some telegraph boy awaiting a reply?
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  12. Laurie R. King _ Island of the Mad

    and Vivian eyed something no one else could see. Then
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