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Word: ponto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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APPLEBY ON ARARAT-Michael Innes-Dodd, Mead ($2). A learned Scotland Yarder, marooned with five other loquacious characters on remote Pacific islet, elucidates the slaying of Sir Ponto Unumunu, black anthropologist, and goes on to puncture an Empire-threatening secret of oddly assorted indigenes. Overtones of Evelyn Waugh, G. K. Chesterton and E. P. Oppenheim make it a treat for those who like their mysteries recondite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in September | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

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