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literaryflack: Black Orchids is a Nero Wolfe double mystery by Rex Stout published in 1942 by Farrar

January 27, 2012

literaryflack: Black Orchids is a Nero Wolfe double mystery by Rex Stout published in 1942 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. Stout’s first short story collection, the volume is composed of two novellas that had appeared in abridged form in The American Magazine: *”Black Orchids” (August 1941, abridged as “Death Wears an Orchid”) *”Cordially Invited to…

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todaysdocument: Edgar Allan Poe: January 18, 1809 – October 7, 1849 Pioneering author Edgar Allan Po

January 19, 2012

todaysdocument: Edgar Allan Poe: January 18, 1809 – October 7, 1849 Pioneering author Edgar Allan Poe joined the Army at the age of 18 in an act of desperation after suffering the strain of surviving on his own for two months without money. This enlistment paper shows that Poe was in Boston when he signed up,…