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Average Jones
Samuel Hopkins Adams
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The species is very susceptible to cold, and would hardly survive a severe frost. It frequents woodpiles and outhouses. Yours truly,
L. O. HOWARD, Chief of Bureau.
"Then Ross was sneaking down here at night and putting the spiders which he had got from Professor Moseley through my keyhole, in the hope that sooner or later one of them would get me," said Dorr.
"A very reasonable expectation, too. Vide, the dogs," returned Average Jones.
"And now," said Mr. Curtis Fleming, "will some one kindly explain to me what this Ross fiend had against our friend, Mr. Dorr?"
"Nothing," replied Average Jones.
"Nothing? Was he coursing with spiders merely for sport?"
"Oh, no. You see Mr. . . . Read More
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4.5 stars. A delightful collection of short stories that have been novelized. A. V. R. E. Jones - "Average" to his friends - is a rather wealthy young man who is doomed to live in New York for five continuous years, so that he might inherit the millions left by a late uncle. Not knowing what to do w
I had a lot of fun and thoroughly enjoyed this short stories. They're humorous, well plotted, and highly entertaining.
Have fun and read it
Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine
This is a collection of ten short stories featuring the character Average Jones by Samuel Hopkins Adams that were published between April 1910 and April 1911. These stories are not related to each other and could be read as stand-alones. I was vastly impressed at first, it strongly reminds me of She
These Golden Age short story mysteries are just my jam. This one was different that the others in that these are more fun romps than they are guess "who done it" but I thoroughly enjoyed each one. Average is such an intriguing character who's dry humor still brings a smile to my face almost 100 year
Nothing Earth-shattering here, and a few of the stories seemed to leave a couple of unanswered holes, but for the most part these were all fun, quick reads, with a great sense of dry humor. I especially liked all the informative footnotes in this LOC edition, and learning some amazing old-timey slan
These delightful, if slightly antiquated, short stories feature a playboy-detective (think of a less stuffy Philo Vance) who gets his clues and his results from the classified advertisements in a variety of papers that existed in the 1900's. Since the stories were written separately, there's some re
Fun mystery short stories from the 1910s, where the main detective uses advertisements to prevent crimes. Definitely a bit dated but there are some clever twists.
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