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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Mark Twain at his best,
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This review is from: Stolen White Elephant, The (Paperback)
"The Stolen White Elephant" is a broad farce mocking the self-proclaimed omniscience of many fictional detectives, told entirely in the form of a series of ridiculous telegraphs. Revolving around the theft of a literal white elephant, the gift of the King of Siam, this manifestly absurd story is nevertheless modeled after the real life efforts of a blundering New York Police Department to recover the corpse of one Alexander T. Stewart, stolen from his family vault in 1878.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Stolen White Elephant (Kindle Edition)
There seems to be problems with transcribing some parts of books such as this. Throughout, the major turning points of the stories, which are quotes from either letters or newspaper articles, are completely missing. I am guessing that the missing sections appear in italics or some variant form.This not the only book in which I have seen this -- makes the entire thing useless. The whole development of the story involves newspaper ads -- all of which are missing.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Missing bits, but still appreciable,
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This review is from: The Stolen White Elephant (Kindle Edition)
This is not a well done copy of The Stolen White Elephant. As other reviewers have noted, bits are missing throughout the story. Mostly newspaper clippings are missing, but frequently the article bits that do make it in have their formatting a bit butchered. The story is still very good and worth reading in this format, just know that if you really love it here then it is worth rereading in a printing that has the whole thing.
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