“Bradley to hold forth. Mr. Bradley stroked his moustache and mentally shot his cuffs. He had begun his career (when still Percy Robinson) as a motor - salesman, and had discovered that there is more money in manufacturing. Now he manufactured detective stories, and found his former experience of the public's gullibility not unhelpful. He was still his own salesman, but occasionally had difficulty in remembering that he was no longer mounted on a stand at Olympia. Everything and everybod...y in this world, including Morton Harrogate Bradley, he heartily despised, except only Percy Robinson. He sold, in tens of thousands. “This is rather unfortunate for me,” he began, in the correct gentlemanly drawl, as if addressing an audience of morons. "I had rather been under the impression that I should be expected to produce as a murderer the most unlikely person, in the usual tradition; and Mrs. Fielder - Flemming has cut the ground away from under my feet.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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