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I couldn't help remembering how you received Mr. Taynton's proposal that you should go for a drive in his car. Don't you remember, Mr. Taynton? Mother's nose did go in the air. It's no use denying it. So I thought, perhaps, that she wouldn't like my having one. But I wanted it so dreadfully, and so I bought it without telling her, and drove down in it today, which is my birthday, so that she couldn't be too severe. Mr. Taynton, while Morris was speaking, had picked up the nutcrackers the boy had been using, and was gravely exploding the shells of the nuts he had helped himself to. So Morris cracked the next one with a loud bang between his white even teeth. Dear Morris, said his mother, how foolish of you. Give Mr. Morris another nutcracker, she added to the parlor-maid. What's foolish? asked he, cracking another. Oh Morris, your teeth, she said. Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric, oblique, and at times humorous or satirical ghost stories, which were often first published in story magazines such as Pearson's Magazine or Hutchinson's Magazine, 20 of which were illustrated by Edmund Blampied.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49581392068881,"sku":"GOR003558638","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49633772798225,"sku":"GOR001701994","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50149608882449,"sku":"GOR001785539","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0701207639.jpg?v=1751105854"},{"product_id":"madame-midas-book-fergus-w-hume-9780701210144","title":"Madame Midas","description":"Fergusson Wright Hume, known as Fergus Hume (1859- 1932) was an English novelist. Shortly after graduation he left for Melbourne. He began writing plays, but found it impossible to persuade the managers of the Melbourne theatres to accept or even read them. Finding that the novels of Emile Gaboriau were then very popular in Melbourne, he obtained and read a set of them and determined to write a novel of a similar kind. The result was the self-published novel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), which became a great success. After the success of his first novel and the publication of another he returned to England in 1888. He resided in the Essex countryside for thirty years, eventually producing over 100 novels and short stories. He was a capable writer of mystery stories, and may be looked upon as one of the precursors of the many writers of detective stories whose work was so popular in the twentieth century. 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That is the mystery that will hold you, the reader, from the first page right through to the very end. It is this puzzle, too, that has made this book one of the most famous crime stories ever to have been published. It has been described in one reference book as the most successful crime story of all time, has sold well over a million copies and has appeared in at least a dozen different language versions. The Sunday Times describes this book as one of the best 100 crime stories of all time, while The Bookseller said that this was a broodingly atmospheric and impossibly well-plotted whodunnit . I was stunned by the time I had finished it. In this new edition, the entire text has been reset in easy-to-read type and noted writer H. R.F. Keating, who has published 60 novels (many of which feature Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID), provides a scintillating introduction to this brilliant mystery novel. 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He went on to write a further 140 novels but none of them achieved any lasting success, and indeed he benefitted little from his greatest work since he sold the English and American rights for just fifty pounds.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49655573348625,"sku":"GOR005044224","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49911164797201,"sku":"CIN0701210133G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50011967193361,"sku":"GOR001452430","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53242713211153,"sku":"GOR002831495","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0701210133.jpg?v=1750700627"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/gaslight-crime-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}