The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection by Hoobler Dorothy

Author:Hoobler, Dorothy [Hoobler, Dorothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History
ISBN: 9780316052535
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Goodreads: 8305178
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2009-04-27T00:00:00+00:00

Apollinaire was smoking a short-stemmed pipe and expiating on Petronius and Nero to some rather vulgar-looking people.… He was wearing a stained light-colored suit, and a tiny straw hat was perched atop his famous pear-shaped head. He had hazel eyes, terrible and gleaming, a bit of curly blond hair fell over his forehead, his mouth looked like a little pimento, he had strong limbs, a broad chest looped across by a platinum watch-chain, and a ruby on his finger. The poor boy was always being taken for a rich man because his mother — an adventuress, to put it politely — clothed him from head to toe [Apollinaire was living in a suburb of Paris with his mother].… Without interrupting his talk he stretched out a hand that was like a tiger’s paw over the marble-topped table. He stayed in his seat until he was finished. Then the three of us went out, and we began that life of three-cornered friendship which lasted almost until the war, never leaving one another whether for work, meals, or fun. 9

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