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planning this improvement and that
Jeff’s heart hardened against Hazel as he pictured her husband puttering happily about his tasks, planning this improvement and that, talking them over with his wife. “Next year we’ll do so and so,” he had undoubtedly said.
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ex Theodora Du Bois, Death Sails In A High Wind (1946) : 178
evidently #11 in the “Anne and Jeffrey McNeill” murder mystery series
Theodora [McCormick] Du Bois (1890-1986), wikipedia
SIM-01 : Theodora DuBois Papers, 1674-2000 (College of Staten Island, CUNY)
aside —
remarkable photo gallery (actually, just a list of jpegs, but fascinating)