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Shark No. 1 is Mr. MacHeath, legendary killer and gang leader, once popularly known as "The Knife." At novel's start, Mac still has his gang, though none but his intimate henchmen know it, and while he carries a swordstick cane, he is prudent enough never to use it. Mac is a progressive crook who has come to see not the error of his ways but his means: "What is a picklock compared to a debenture share? What is the burgling of a bank compared to the founding of a bank? What is the murder of a man compared...
...Swordsticks & Umbrellas. He was a slim, tall youth, who quickly developed such a belly that, when asked by a lady in World War I why he was not "out at the front," he was able to retort: "Go round to the side, Madam, and you'll see that I am." When, enveloped in a vast cloak and toying with a swordstick, he sat his 300 pounds down to dream on a wayside bench, passers-by "either take me for the village idiot or for one of Harrod's delivery vans." He liked to believe that his life...
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