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Page 12
He was a neat creature and saw at once that his things , though not in disorder ,
were not as he had left them . He guessed that an examination had been made of
his effects . That did not disturb him , for he kept in his room no document that ...
He was a neat creature and saw at once that his things , though not in disorder ,
were not as he had left them . He guessed that an examination had been made of
his effects . That did not disturb him , for he kept in his room no document that ...
Page 73
He looked through the cards , set some of them on one side on a system
Ashenden did not understand , shuffled the remainder and once more put them in
little piles . “ The cards warned me , I will never deny that , their warning was clear
and ...
He looked through the cards , set some of them on one side on a system
Ashenden did not understand , shuffled the remainder and once more put them in
little piles . “ The cards warned me , I will never deny that , their warning was clear
and ...
Page 79
I devised a murder story once , but the murder was so ingenious that I could
never find a way of bringing it home to the murderer , and after all , one of the
conventions of the detective story is that the mystery should in the end be solved
and the ...
I devised a murder story once , but the murder was so ingenious that I could
never find a way of bringing it home to the murderer , and after all , one of the
conventions of the detective story is that the mystery should in the end be solved
and the ...
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User Review - lamour - LibraryThingThis is volume three of Maugham's collected short stories. In this volume he has put his stories that have the same protagonist, Ashendan who is recruited to move to Switzerland where he will be a ... Read full review
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User Review - jimgysin - LibraryThingIt's easy to see why this one is considered an archetype of espionage fiction. The fact that the book was first published back in the late 1920s means that some of the dialogue and narrative will ... Read full review
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Ashenden: Or: The British Agent The Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | World Publishing Company, 1947 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 19 Feb 2009 |
| Length | 304 pages |
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