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The Roman Hat Mystery
The Roman Hat Mystery by Ellery Queen, available in Auren as a public-domain ebook in the United States.
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Part One
“The policeman must oft follow the precept of the ‘bakadori’—those fool-birds who, though they know disaster awaits them at the hands and clubs of the beachcombers, brave ignominious death to bury their eggs in the sandy shore. … So the policeman. All Nippon should not deter him from hatching the egg of thoroughness.”
From A Thousand Leaves,
by Tamaka Hiero
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