Watching The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar I was struck by the fact that an example Roald Dahl used to insinuate that the titular man was simple was that he only read mystery and detective novels. (This is also something I encountered in one of the books below, but in this case I think the author was being slightly cheeky). That stung, because that des…
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