He always had dark hair until COVID. All of a sudden, he had white hair. He's kept it that way and I must say, I like it.
1836 Brett Harte US writer (The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar) He lived in London for a time, after serving as US Consul to Glasgow. He seldom wrote detective fiction, but his story The Stolen Cigar-Case, featuring Hemlock Jones, was described by Ellery Queen as probably the best parody of Sherlock Holmes ever written"
Has anybody read it? If you have, how is it?
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