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Post Style: the world according to Sid Langley.(News)

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 19990526
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Today, dear readers, I present for your consideration The Case of the Vanishing Napkin Rings. As odd and thought-provoking as anything the pen of Conan Doyle or the infinitely more perspicacious Wilkie Collins ever conjured up.

Picture, if you will, a large family gathering at an establishment mid-way between the Midland counties and our eastern sea-coast. The company is convivial, the finest dry sherry, choicest cooled wines, and, for those in charge of the motor vehicles, mineral water with ice and lemon added, flow freely.

There is an exchange of news and family ...

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