The junior partner of Caine and Cooper, though a man of blameless life, had one of those dark, saturnine faces which suggest a taste for the more sinister forms of crime, and on one cheek of that dark, saturnine face was a long scar. Actually it had been caused by the bursting of a gingerbeer bottle at a Y.M.C.A. picnic, but it gave the impression of being the outcome of battles with knives in the cellars of the underworld.

For an author Jerry Vail was rather nice-looking, most authors, as is widely known, resembling in appearance the more degraded types of fish, unless they look …

Ice formed on the butler's upper slopes.

As far as the eye could reach, I found myself gazing on a surging sea of aunts. There were tall aunts, short aunts, stout aunts, thin aunts, and an aunt who wa…

Everything (he kept saying) is something it isn't. And everybody is always somewhere else.

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

Il est plus facile de paraitre digne des emplois qu'on n'a pas que de ceux que l'on exerce.