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    "The Scent of White Linen": A Tale of the Sportsmen's Club
    "The Scent of White Linen": A Tale of the Sportsmen's Club
    "The Scent of White Linen": A Tale of the Sportsmen's Club
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    "The Scent of White Linen": A Tale of the Sportsmen's Club

    By David Seed

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    The Sportsmen's Club is a two-story, skid-row structure of connected buildings housing a bar, a poker room, and a Chinese restaurant. The Sportsmen's Hotel reaches across the upper floor.
    Business depends on a subculture of alcoholics, hustlers, shills, gamblers, and those in need of a cheap room. Among them is Alexander Kyness who seems to have chosen the club as a place in which to live a life of obscurity. His friends call him "Kindness."
    In this odd little world of greed, deception, and predation, Kindness maintains an attitude of detachment. But his aversion to entanglement may meet its match in "Little Doll" Grey, the bar manager whose formidable wit keeps order over the misfits and malcontents in this place where something interesting always happens.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestern Grebe Publishing
    Release dateJan 22, 2013
    ISBN9781301195176
    "The Scent of White Linen": A Tale of the Sportsmen's Club
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    David Seed

    ###About the author:David Seed was born August 15, 1931 in Minot, North Dakota. In his eleventh year the family moved to Dunsmuir, California where he graduated high school, believing himself to be a writer. In the fall of 1949 he started at the University of California at Berkeley and did his best to learn what he could of life. He managed to graduate in the spring of 1956 and continued to follow his calling, experiencing a chaotic life as both participant and observer. He is now an old man writing books in Oregon.

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      "The Scent of White Linen" - David Seed

      Tales of the Sportsmen’s Club

      The Scent of White Linen

      By David Seed

      Smashwords Edition

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      Western Grebe Publishing

      Los Osos, California 93402

      Copyright David Seed 2012

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      Prologue

      The Scent of White Linen

      About the Author

      PROLOGUE

      The Sportsmen's Club is a two-story, skid-row structure of connected buildings housing a bar, a poker room, and a Chinese restaurant. The Sportsmen's Hotel reaches across the upper floor.

      Business depends on a subculture of alcoholics, hustlers, shills, gamblers, and those in need of a cheap room. Among them is Alexander Kyness who seems to have chosen the club as a place in which to live a life of obscurity. His friends call him Kindness.

      In this odd, little world of greed, deception, and predation, Kindness maintains an

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