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Among the Norwegian books shown are some of the great early works of this literature, in manuscript and printed form. One case is devoted to the works of Bjornstjerne Bjornson, modern Norwegian poet, novelist, and dramatist; and another case to the works of Ibsen...
Carrying on in the William Powell-Myrna Loy tradition, Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell succeed with little effort in becoming entangled in a theft and murder mystery. A mad whirl that includes to murders and two trips to the underworld is started by the theft of a priceless Shakespearean manuscript. As the plot swirls and eddies, our hero Joel Sloane, a dealer in rare books, emerges unscathed from an arrest by the police, an attempted seduction, and a gruesome automobile accident. But all ends happily when Joel is shot in the seat by his wife, though the title "Fast...
...manuscript of his first book, The Unspeakable Gentleman (1922) was lost from a Manhattan taxi; recovered weeks later, it made him a success. The next ten years he lived in Boston, becoming, he says, "something of an Apley himself." Now married to Adelaide Ferry Hooker (sister of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3d), he spends his winters in a swanky Manhattan duplex apartment, his summers on an island farm near Newburyport...
Born in Lobberich, Germany in 1838, and educated at the Universities of Marburg and Berlin, Jaeger became well-known in his twenties by establishing the order and date of the books of Aristotle's "Metaphysics" of which the manuscript tradition had become confused...
Confronted with such flagrant red herrings as Sidney Blackmer, Alan Dinehart, Reginald Owen, a skulking butler and two furtive juveniles, the sleuthing couple gaily but improbably sniff out the right scent, get their manuscript...