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Rufus King

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Rufus King


Born
in The United States
January 03, 1893

Died
January 01, 1966

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Rufus King was an American author of Whodunit crime novels. He created two series of detective stories: the first one with Reginald De Puyster, a sophisticated detective similar to Philo Vance, and the second one with his more famous character, the Lieutenant Valcour.

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Average rating: 3.77 · 630 ratings · 98 reviews · 133 distinct works â€� Similar authors
Murder By the Clock (Lieute...

3.55 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1929 — 22 editions
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The Second Detective MEGAPACK®

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3.81 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Murder By Latitude

4.14 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1930 — 13 editions
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Malice In Wonderland

4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1958 — 9 editions
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Secret Beyond the Door

3.32 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1946 — 12 editions
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Holiday Homicide

3.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1940 — 10 editions
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Somewhere in This House

3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1929 — 8 editions
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Murder in the Willett Famil...

3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1931 — 13 editions
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The Lesser Antilles Case

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1934 — 9 editions
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Design in Evil

3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1942 — 8 editions
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Murder By the Clock Somewhere in This House Murder By Latitude Murder in the Willett Famil... Murder on the Yacht Valcour Meets Murder The Lesser Antilles Case
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“He glanced nervously over his shoulder with a remarkable pair of codfish eyes.

'Like a ’orrid movie I saw once in Canarsie. Bunch o� lunks set off on a cruise to nowhere, just like this, and wot do you suppose they all was?'

'What?'

'Dead.'

'How?'

'Dead as mutton, only they didn’t know it.”
Rufus King

“But that in regard to General Washington, he told him since his resignation that in his opinion "that act closing and finishing what had gone before and viewed in connection with it, placed him in a light the most distinguished of any man living, and that he thought him the greatest character of the age.”
Rufus King

“A union of the States is a union of the men composing them, from whence a national character result to the whole,”
Rufus King

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