Word: knoxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weakness for complicated railroad routes, crossroad puzzles and detective novels is more easily explained as the recreation of a naturally acute mind. Because he has a horror of propaganda, his whodunits (the most ingenious has the Knoxious title Double Cross-Purposes) are less theological than Chesterton's Father Brown stories. It is not true, as has been said, that you can always spot the murderer because he is sure to be a Catholic-though that too would be Knox all over; he would think it arrogant to make the hero a Catholic. Yet the London paper which once said...
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