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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled Dead Man's Shoes about Award, Best, Mars with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction?
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conversations.value: the author is a Michigan-based playwright and four-time nominee for the Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association Award for best new play, first in 2006 for All Childish Things, then in 2007 for Language Lessons, in 2010 for It Came From Mars and in 2012 for Dead Mans Shoes. Other plays include Salvage, The Gravedigger - a Frankenstein Play, Northern Aggression, Dr. Sewards Dracula, Invasive Species, The Scullery Maid, Night Blooming, and Ebenezer. Point of Origin won Best Locally Created Script 2002 from the Ann Arbor News, and The Stillness Between Breaths also won Best New Play 2005 from the Oakland Press. The Stillness Between Breaths and It Came From Mars were selected to appear in the National New Play Networks Festival of New Plays. He also co-authored Flyover, USA: Voices From Men of the Midwest at the Williamston Theatre (Winner of the 2009 Thespie Award for Best New Script). He also adapted Christmas Carold for the Performance Network. It Came From Mars was a recipient of 2009s Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, and won Best New Script 2010 from the Lansing State Journal. His play Dead Mans Shoes won the Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award in 2011. Joseph is an Associate Artist at First Folio Shakespeare, an Artistic Ambassador to the National New Play Network, and an adjunct lecturer at Eastern Michigan University, where he teaches Dramatic Composition.
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conversations.value: the author is a Michigan-based playwright and four-time nominee for the Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association Award for best new play, first in 2006 for All Childish Things, then in 2007 for Language Lessons, in 2010 for It Came From Mars and in 2012 for Dead Mans Shoes. Other plays include Salvage, The Gravedigger - a Frankenstein Play, Northern Aggression, Dr. Sewards Dracula, Invasive Species, The Scullery Maid, Night Blooming, and Ebenezer. Point of Origin won Best Locally Created Script 2002 from the Ann Arbor News, and The Stillness Between Breaths also won Best New Play 2005 from the Oakland Press. The Stillness Between Breaths and It Came From Mars were selected to appear in the National New Play Networks Festival of New Plays. He also co-authored Flyover, USA: Voices From Men of the Midwest at the Williamston Theatre (Winner of the 2009 Thespie Award for Best New Script). He also adapted Christmas Carold for the Performance Network. It Came From Mars was a recipient of 2009s Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, and won Best New Script 2010 from the Lansing State Journal. His play Dead Mans Shoes won the Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award in 2011.
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conversations.value: Dead Man's Shoes
  There was a stir from the back of the car, and Priggley emerged from under a blanket on the floor where he had been curled.
  The headmaster appeared to enjoy the approach to the docks. He confided in Carolus that once, as an undergraduate at London University, he had been one of a party which visited what he called 'a public house known as Charlie Brown's', and had often felt some curiosity about the East End of London.
  He handed Carolus two telegrams. One was from Lance Willick saying that his plane did not reach London airport until nine o'clock, but that he would arrive as soon as possible. The other was from Marylin, and said simply that her party was complete.
  Carolus could scarcely contradict this. Mrs Roper was followed by Jerry Butt and Ronald Ferry, who, in the sobriety of their working year, seemed very ordinary pleasant men. Gerard Prosper was with them, and although Mrs Roper introduced Carolus, he did no more than murmur a formal "how d'you do" and retire with his pipe to a quiet corner. Appleyard and Kutz sat together with the apprentice Dickie Bryce beside them.
  Then Maltby arrived, and after telling Carolus ironically that he was expecting to be taught his business tonight and that the story had got to be an ingenious one, however improbable, he sat down.
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conversations.value: Then Maltby arrived, and after telling Carolus ironically that he was expecting to be taught his business tonight and that the story had got to be an ingenious one, however improbable, he sat down.
  The arrival of Marylin's party was even more impressive, for Ridge's car had followed hers to the docks, and the whole Barton Abbess contingent came at once. This caused Mr Gorringer to say "Upon my soul, Deene," in a very feeling manner and to stare as if fascinated at Socker, who placed himself next to Mrs Roper.
  The headmaster raised his eyebrows meaningly to Captain Bidlake to ask if he was going to call the company to order, and Bidlake indicated that Mr Gorringer should do so. The headmaster therefore cleared his throat with a mighty rumble and tapped on the table before him.
  It was noted that as Carolus talked he kept his eyes for the most part on the area of dimly lighted deck-space beyond the open door of the saloon, but that he seemed to see nothing to interest him there.
  Carolus paused here, and asked for a drink, which set up a buzz of conversation, particularly among those who had been freed from the shadow of suspicion.
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conversations.value: Bryce was dispatched. Appleyard went out and came back in a moment with a pair of handcuffs, which Maltby put on without much difficulty.
  The remainder of those in the saloon were admirably calm. Perhaps those from Barton Abbess, already a little out of their depth, were too stunned to do more than stare at the big man, who had grown rather limp and helpless. There was a thin smile on Kutz's face. No one spoke, but those who had drinks beside them sipped.
  It seemed a very short time before the police arrived. One of them knew Maltby, and he gave them brief instructions.
  When they had gone, the din of general conversation gradually rose. Like people everywhere who have passed through some tense crisis, these wanted to chatter, congratulate one another, return to normality.
  Gunner came in and spoke to Captain Bidlake, who nodded. Gunner then appeared with a vast mound of sandwiches and then another, which he set down among those assembled.
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conversations.value: Appleyard went out and came back in a moment with a pair of handcuffs, which Maltby put on without much difficulty.
  The remainder of those in the saloon were admirably calm. Perhaps those from Barton Abbess, already a little out of their depth, were too stunned to do more than stare at the big man, who had grown rather limp and helpless. There was a thin smile on Kutz's face. No one spoke, but those who had drinks beside them sipped.
  It seemed a very short time before the police arrived. One of them knew Maltby, and he gave them brief instructions.
  When they had gone, the din of general conversation gradually rose. Like people everywhere who have passed through some tense crisis, these wanted to chatter, congratulate one another, return to normality.
  Gunner came in and spoke to Captain Bidlake, who nodded. Gunner then appeared with a vast mound of sandwiches and then another, which he set down among those assembled.