From Pine View Farm

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Edmund Crispin, through the character of Inspector Humbledy, upon learning that Our Hero is reading a book by Henry James:

Narcotic. I always feel that Henry James ought to be dealt with in the Dangerous Drugs Act . . . .

Crispin, Edmund, Frequent Hearses (New York: Penguin, 1982) p. 11

I have read Henry James and I cannot argue with that sentiment. James makes Dickens seem positively spritely.

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