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The Florentine Dagger: A Novel for Amateur Detectives
By Ben Hecht
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This Golden Age mystery novel features a nervous cavalier with frightened eyes, a mysterious and puritanical satyr, a dagger, a candlestick, a crucifix, and a false beard—and, of course, a detective! (Not to mention the protagonist, "Prince Julien de Medici -- of Broadway.") Adapted into the movie of the same name in 1935.
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