Humphrey Challoner was a great savant spoiled by untimely wealth. When I knew him he had lapsed into a mere dilettante; at least, so I thought at the time, though subsequent revelations showed him in a rather different light. He had some reputation as a criminal anthropologist and had formerly been well known as a comparative anatomist, but when I made his acquaintance he seemed to be occupied chiefly in making endless additions to the specimens in his private museum. This collection I could never quite understand. It consisted chiefly of human and other mammalian skeletons, all of which presented certain small deviations from the normal; but its object I could never make out -- until after his death; and then, indeed, the revelation was a truly astounding one. . . .
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It is not without some misgivings that I at length make public the strange history communicated to me by my lamented friend Humphrey Challoner. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Museum Archives, Number Five, Number One, Anthropological Series, Humphrey Challoner, Saul Street, Spotty Bamber, East London, East End, Gad's Hill, London Road New!
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It is not without some misgivings that I at length make public the strange history communicated to me by my lamented friend Humphrey Challoner. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ringed hair, museum wing, museum door, second floor front Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Museum Archives, Number Five, Number One, Anthropological Series, Humphrey Challoner, Saul Street, Spotty Bamber, East London, East End, Gad's Hill, London Road New!
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- The Uttermost Farthing by R. Austin Freeman in Front Matter, and page 1
- Owls Well That Ends Well (Meg Langslow Mysteries) by Donna Andrews on page 60, page 282, and page 285
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