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Oh! The good days! our farm sang from every corner !

I kept on scratching my head after finishing this book. My forefinger and middle finger drumming on my skull and a new sort of disconcerting bewilderment in my eyes! This drumming was at once followed by the faint clanking of a loosely stitched steel button on my cuff which was vibrating with the tapping ofContinue reading “Oh! The good days! our farm sang from every corner !”

THE GENTLEMAN THIEF

Arsene Lupin! Such a wonderful creation by Maurice Leblanc! Arsene Lupin is a stylish and dashing French character with all daring, charm and panache. He is called literature’s greatest gentleman thief and detective. I was never aware of this gentleman thief, but after reading this first book, I became an immediate fan of his eleganceContinue reading “THE GENTLEMAN THIEF”