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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
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Noblesville
Indiana
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Keys
Anything
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Ever
Hemingway
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Glasses

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