Title: Maher-Shalal-Hashbaz
Title Record # 1334500
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Date: 1933-04-01
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English
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Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Date: 1933-04-01
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: Contains no speculative elements. First published in The Passing Show, April 1, 1933, per Lit Mags Index.
Synopsis: Responding to an ad in the newspaper, a girl sells her cat Maher-Shalal-Hashbaz for 10 shillings. But the circumstances of the purchase are strange; an amateur detective investigates the man who placed the ad.
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Publications
| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Evening Standard Second Book of Strange Stories | 1937-00-00 | ed. uncredited | Hutchinson | 3/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced
in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings
equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling.
Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g.
3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that
is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but
sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters
of a shilling). |
1021 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth |