Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 19, No. 99, February 1952

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All his life, Andre Maurois, the French novelist and biographer, wanted to write. When, as a young man, he appealed for advice to his best friend, Professor Alain, the professor of philosophy said: “If you wish to write, nothing will be more useful to you than to have lived first, to have employed yourself in a trade and to have known responsibility.” Such practical advice from a professor of philosophy! So young Maurois went to work in his father’s factory. But a person who wants to write, and who wants to deeply enough, will write; and so it turned out for Andre Maurois — his very first book, LES SILENCES DU COLONEL BRAMBLE, transformed him, overnight, from an industrial executive into a popular and successful author.

Andre Maurois has been called “a sophisticate who writes for people who love the urbane and the witty.” His work has also been described as having delicacy of style and charming irony. You will find all these qualities in the curious little tale which follows...

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