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enables him to decipher it, leading him to the emeralds, still in their hiding place in the church. He shows the document to Mary Thoday, and she and
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in 1936, said "Those who would appreciate an artist's picture of a group of village bellringers – of the kind who can pull a rope with any
Londoner – may find one in , contains the best description known to me of the bells, the ringers and the art. It is probably, indeed, the only novel based on a
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in particular for being dull, overlong and far too detailed. He considered the bell-ringing prose to be "a lot of information of the kind that you might expect to find in an encyclopaedia article on campanology". In his view, Sayers does not, really, write very well: "it is simply that she is more
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in France, Deacon had waited several years to return for the emeralds that he had hidden before his arrest. He had asked
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