Word: clodes
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...King Clode, who ran the place, had something on his mind and he wanted to hold a conference. He summoned the Royal Wizard, who appeared in a cloud of smoke. "Just come in the room like anybody else," bawled the king indignantly, "Bad enough ... to appear in a flash of lightning . . . smells up the whole castle." "Yes, Sire," said the Wizard...
...King Clode summoned the Royal Physician. But the Royal Physician was ill: he was busy taking his own temperature and then shaking down the thermometer without looking at it. "As a physician," he explained to the King, "I must take my temperature every three hours, but as a patient, I must not be told what...
...King Clode summoned the Royal Astronomer (who studied the solar system through pink lenses), the Royal Clockmaker (who kept his sundials in the shade and whose clocks wouldn't strike twelve), and the Royal Recorder (who never let courtiers borrow the History of Sorcery from the Royal Library without first filling out a slip...
...party of 19 toffs, before the Deadly Three are scotched without their ransom. The House in Tuesday Market (Knopf, $2) has for clues three cigars and a scrap of pink paper, but psychic waves, deadly chemicals, and amateur theatricals find them sufficient. The Secret of Secrets (Clode, $2) is a purely scientific invention, and yet the most improbable people seem to have stolen it?quaint rustics, fake priest, German spy, vamp. The Diamond Murders (Dodd, Mead, $2) reeks with dope and gore for the sake of the Maharanee of Dahlcurrie's necklace; is nevertheless pleasantly credible...