The Oxford Dictionary of Art Paul Starr But its beautiful gothic exterior

But its beautiful gothic exterior hides a horrific past: it was the scene of a series of depraved killings that have never been solved

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and all-seeing detective that we know and love from the cryptic Sergeant Cuff in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone to Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade

when every thought and utterance vanished as soon as it was born

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