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Bones in London
Edgar Wallace
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"But where are you going?" asked the startled girl.
"To Stivvins'. I am going to look at this place. There is a possibility that certain things have been overlooked. Never lose an opportunity, dear old miss. We magnates make our fortune by never ignoring the little things."
But still she demurred, being a very sane, intelligent girl, with an imagination which produced no more alluring mental picture than a cold and draughty drive, a colder and draughtier and even more depressing inspection of a ruined factory, and such small matters as a lost lunch.
But Bones was out of the room, in the street, had flung himself upon a hesitant taxi-driver, had bullied and cajoled him to take a monstrous and undreamt-of journey for a man who, by his own admission, had only sufficient petrol to get his taxi home, and when the girl came down she found Bones, with his arm entwined t. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
In the general style of Wodehouse. Bones is a wildly successful financier because he is a lamb among wolves and knows it. The evil doings of the financial sharks are turned on their heads. They lose; he wins. Perfect airplane book. Nice touches with Bones love for his "typewriter" Marguerite--she of
A jolly old book about a very lucky businessman in London
Amusing stories, but the ones set in Africa are better.
Light reading, certainly, but very enjoyable - just don't try to understand the business deals. Bones is so endearing.
I really didn’t expect to enjoy this book as much as I did, especially as it was written around 80 years before I was born! A very funny book with well developed characters.
Bones and co. have temporarily given up army life and returned to England (they would return to Africa for the next book in the series Sandi The king maker.) Bones who has inherited a fortune, has started speculating and through luck more than skill manages to make the most unlikely schemes and down
Better known as a mystery writer, Wallace, who churned out quite a lot of literature (174 novels, 24 plays!), also did a series about an exxentric London businessman named Augustus Tibbetts, nicknamed Bones, and this is one of those books. Essentially, Bones in London is a series of loosely connecte