Word: overfamiliarity
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...popular recording artist and movie actress. Her singing style has settled into a kind of modified Moorish that can develop into a frightening, savage howl or sink into a sweet whisper. Last week she occasionally accompanied herself expertly on a guitar, playing some poignant harmonies that freshened the overfamiliar Latin tunes...
...will the astute reader mistake Tillman's inscrutability for that of a "squealer." Who wishes to marry Beryl Stedman although, she, while she admires his generous, open nature, cannot bring herself to love him? Is not the squealer suspected of being a bigamist and is not merry Frank Sutton overfamiliar with his gaudy secretary? In the big unmasking scene at the end of the book, everything is neatly explained. Sutton is indeed the squealer and he will hang for his bad acts; his secretary is his accomplice. Captain Leslie is none other than the shrewd Detective Barrabal; he will marry...