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The peacock feather murders

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1937.
Call number: 660827
Creator: Dickson, Carter (1906-1977)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Kim Stanley Robinson, August 2025. From the Kim Stanley Robinson Library. With illustrated bookplate "The Fowlers".
Dimensions: 20 cm
Associated people: Robinson, Kim Stanley,
Associated organizations: Grosset & Dunlap,; Kim Stanley Robinson Library (Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens).

Display of bookends, pillows, vase with peacock feathers

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The Bullock's Department Store Collection consists of 680 photographs, 2 boxes of ephemera related to Bullock's publicity and events, and 29 glass plate negatives, 1905-1971. It focuses primarily on the retail spaces, displays, departments, and employees at the downtown Los Angeles store once located at Broadway, 7th, and Hill Streets. The photographs document the various functions associated with the store including the full range of departments; window displays; store merchandising; employee activities and gatherings; children's parties and parades; advertising billboards; the August sales event and crowds; and construction scenes from 1912 and 1928. Photographers include Warren Bowen Studios; Brown and Warrington; Dubois Photo Co.; Frank C. Elliott; Jim England; Graham Photo; Keystone Photo; J.C. Milligan; Ernest Pratt; Otto Rothschild; Stagg Photography; Art Streib; "Dick" Whittington Studio; Whitland Locke Commercial Photography; and Witzel Photo.

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The cavalier's cup : another adventure of Sir Henry Merrivale

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The story is set at Telford Old Hall, a historic English estate haunted by the ghost of a long-dead Cavalier, Sir Byng Rawdon. The estate's prized family heirloom is the jeweled "Cavalier's Cup," which Sir Byng reportedly cursed while etching a poem into a diamond-paned window. When the cup is brought back to the manor from a bank vault, Lord "Tom" Brace attempts to protect it by guarding it in the heavily fortified Oak Room. Lord Brace wedges the heavy bolts on the door from the inside and fastens all the windows. The cup is placed in a safe, with its only key secured in the room as well.However, by morning, a seemingly impossible crime has occurred. The room remains entirely sealed, yet the cup has been removed from the safe and placed out on a table. Fearing he has become a sleepwalker, Lord Brace refuses to return to sleep, ultimately prompting his wife to call upon Scotland Yard.

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