Leather Armchairs: The Chivas Regal Book of London ClubsCassell, 1963 - 194 pages |
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... Senior Bloodstain , where the private investigators congregate . I shall never forget lunching with Adrian Mulliner , the private eye , at the Senior Bloodstain on the occasion when by pure deductive methods he tracked down and exposed ...
... Senior Bloodstain , where the private investigators congregate . I shall never forget lunching with Adrian Mulliner , the private eye , at the Senior Bloodstain on the occasion when by pure deductive methods he tracked down and exposed ...
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... senior of the two surviving clubs , membership of which is restricted to undergraduates and those who have been at least accepted by , even if they have not matriculated at , Oxford and Cambridge . As such , it has always been honoured ...
... senior of the two surviving clubs , membership of which is restricted to undergraduates and those who have been at least accepted by , even if they have not matriculated at , Oxford and Cambridge . As such , it has always been honoured ...
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... senior members would seldom deign to speak to younger ones . One of the few times that conversation became general was when , for a brief period , London omnibuses were diverted through St James's Square . A junior member recalls on ...
... senior members would seldom deign to speak to younger ones . One of the few times that conversation became general was when , for a brief period , London omnibuses were diverted through St James's Square . A junior member recalls on ...
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