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The Widening Stain
The Widening Stain
Author:
Professor Parry was tall, blond and handsome. His only flaws were his thinning hair and his uncontrollable urge to inject original limericks into every conversation. When a fellow professor is found dead in the college library, Parry has personal reasons to look into the death. — Set at a thinly disguised version of Cornell University, The Wi... more » was written by a Cornell professor of romance literature who frequently contributed short humor peieces to The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post and Life. He published his only mystery under a pseudonym and denied, at least in jest, authorship. A copy of his book was fiound in the Cornell library with the following limerick scribbled on the flyleaf:
A cabin in northern Wisconsin
Is what I would be for the nonce in
To be rid of the pain
Of The Widening Stain
And W. Bolingbroke Johnson
Published in 1942, the book was an immediate hit, going in to several printings.
Author:
Professor Parry was tall, blond and handsome. His only flaws were his thinning hair and his uncontrollable urge to inject original limericks into every conversation. When a fellow professor is found dead in the college library, Parry has personal reasons to look into the death. — Set at a thinly disguised version of Cornell University, The Wi... more » was written by a Cornell professor of romance literature who frequently contributed short humor peieces to The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post and Life. He published his only mystery under a pseudonym and denied, at least in jest, authorship. A copy of his book was fiound in the Cornell library with the following limerick scribbled on the flyleaf:
A cabin in northern Wisconsin
Is what I would be for the nonce in
To be rid of the pain
Of The Widening Stain
And W. Bolingbroke Johnson
Published in 1942, the book was an immediate hit, going in to several printings.
ISBN-13: 9781601870087
ISBN-10: 1601870086
Publication Date: 10/15/2007
Pages: 158
Rating: 1
ISBN-10: 1601870086
Publication Date: 10/15/2007
Pages: 158
Rating: 1
4 stars, based on 1 rating
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