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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote

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Rex Stout
Age: 88 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 1
Died: 1975
Died: October 27
Novelist
Radio Personality
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Noblesville
Indiana
Wrote
Keys
Anything
Better
Ever
Hemingway
Glass
Glasses

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