Thursday, November 2, 2017

First Lines: E.V. Odle - The Clockwork Man


It was just as Doctor Allingham had congratulated himself upon the fact that the bowling was broken, and he had only to hit now and save the troubling of running, just as he was scanning the boundaries with one eye and with the other following Tanner's short, crooked arm raised high above the white sheet at the back of the opposite wicket, that he noticed the strange figure.

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