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My reading time fell to zero since I no longer have a daily train commute and instead get to drive. Today though I managed to find an audio copy that instead of the novel is a collection from the original Black Mask magazine publication of it.
This version is split into multiple parts and has a short synopsis of what has already happened at the beginning of each section. I'm glad it is included that way, it's a good reminder of how this was published originally.
I wonder if some of our problems are from the fact that this was originally a serial (repeated descriptions, etc). I'm sure that he didn't have much time to prepare this and, if this follows several other publications I have seen, he was writing the later parts after the first was published, so he wouldn't have been able to go back to tighten up the writing.
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