Word: grafter
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...DARK PLACES-John Russell- Knopf ($2.50). Twelve tales of savage environments and more or less savage people by the author of Where the Pavement Ends. A tourist searches for "the color of the East" and finds it strangely crim-son-a tropical grafter fights to the death so no one may rob his superiors but himself-criminals, escaping on a former slave ship fall into the hands of the deadly justice of the vampire bats-and so on. The yarns are varied, colorful, exciting, skilfully told, with a knowledge of strange lands and stranger characters that is obviously firsthand. Neither...