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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Some more obscure stories, but well worth one's time.
#1 - She was a girlygirl and they were true men, the lords of creation, but she pitted her wits against them and she won.
#2 - If I had cared to live, I would have died.
#3 - When the office door opened suddenly I knew the game was up. It had been a money-maker - but it was over.
#4 - Gallegher played by ear, which would have been all right if he had been a musician - but he was a scientist.
#5 - I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker called Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte.
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I wouldn't call #5 obscure. It's
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett, the inspiration for the movies
Yojimbo and
For A Few Dollars More.
"Poisonville" gives it away.