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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled Champagne for One about Unwilling, Faith, Usher with the genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense?
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conversations.value: Unwilling to accept a suicide ruling after witnessing the death of the admittedly morbid Faith Usher, Archie Goodwin is assisted in the investigation by Nero Wolfe, who has been warned to stay away from the case. Reissue. NYT.
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conversations.value: Do you know the first three paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: Champagne for One
  Kent turned to me. "What about you, Goodwin? I understand you're a detective, so maybe you can detect the answer."
  I put my coffee cup down. "I'm a little hazy," I said, "as to what you're after. If you just want to decide whether you used the word 'protocol' right, the best plan would be to get the dictionary. There's one upstairs in the library. But if what you want is brandy, and the cabinet is locked, the best plan would be for one of us to go to a liquor store. There's one at the corner of Eighty-second and Madison. We could toss up."
  Robilotti darted a glance at him, not friendly. After all, who was the host? "I was about to ask," he said, "if anyone wants more coffee. No?" He left his chair. "We will join them in the music room and escort them downstairs and it is understood that each of us will dance first with his dinner partner. If you please, gentlemen?"
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conversations.value: Do you know four more paragraphs?
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conversations.value: He grunted. "Every investigator follows a routine up to a point, Miss Yarmis. Beyond that point comes the opportunity for talent if any is at hand. I find it a little difficult to accept your portfolio of negatives." Another grunt. "It may not be outside my capacity to contrive a question that will not parrot the police. I'll try. Do you mean to tell me that during the seven months you lived with Miss Usher you had no inkling of her having any social or personal contact—excluding her job and night school and the visits of Mrs. Robbins—with any of her fellow beings?"
  Helen's frown had gone suddenly, and the corners of her mouth had lifted a little. "Headache," she said. "Faith never had headaches, except only once, one day when she came home from work. She wouldn't eat anything and she didn't go to school that night, and I wanted her to take some aspirin but she said it wouldn't help any. Then she asked me if I had a mother, and I said my mother was dead and she said she wished hers was. That didn't sound like her and I said that was an awful thing to say, and she said she knew it was but I might say it too if I had a mother like hers, and she said she had met her on the street when she was out for lunch and there had been a scene, and she had to run to get away from her." Helen was looking pleased. "So that was a contact, wasn't it?"
  But they couldn't. He contrived other questions that didn't parrot the police, but all he got was a collection of blanks, and finally he gave it up.
  He moved his eyes to include the others. "Perhaps I should have explained," he said, "exactly why I wanted to talk with you. First, since you had been in close association with Miss Usher, I wanted to know your attitude toward Mr. Goodwin's opinion that she did not kill herself. On the whole you have supported it. Miss Varr has upheld it on valid grounds, Miss Yarmis has opposed it on ambiguous grounds, and Miss Tuttle is uncertain."
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conversations.value: Reverse the sentences.
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conversations.value: ". Miss Varr has upheld it on valid grounds, Miss Yarmis has opposed it on ambiguous grounds, and Miss Tuttle is uncertain. On the whole you have supported it. Goodwin's opinion that she did not kill herself. First, since you had been in close association with Miss Usher, I wanted to know your attitude toward Mr. "Perhaps I should have explained," he said, "exactly why I wanted to talk with you.
  He moved his eyes to include the others. He contrived other questions that didn't parrot the police, but all he got was a collection of blanks, and finally he gave it up. "So that was a contact, wasn't it?"
  But they couldn't." Helen was looking pleased. That didn't sound like her and I said that was an awful thing to say, and she said she knew it was but I might say it too if I had a mother like hers, and she said she had met her on the street when she was out for lunch and there had been a scene, and she had to run to get away from her. Then she asked me if I had a mother, and I said my mother was dead and she said she wished hers was. She wouldn't eat anything and she didn't go to school that night, and I wanted her to take some aspirin but she said it wouldn't help any. "Faith never had headaches, except only once, one day when she came home from work. "Headache," she said. Robbins—with any of her fellow beings?"
  Helen's frown had gone suddenly, and the corners of her mouth had lifted a little. Do you mean to tell me that during the seven months you lived with Miss Usher you had no inkling of her having any social or personal contact—excluding her job and night school and the visits of Mrs. I'll try. "It may not be outside my capacity to contrive a question that will not parrot the police." Another grunt. I find it a little difficult to accept your portfolio of negatives. Beyond that point comes the opportunity for talent if any is at hand. "Every investigator follows a routine up to a point, Miss Yarmis.He grunted
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Do you know the last five paragraphs?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Cramer never said. Mrs. Robilotti was on her feet. I had the idea then that what moved her was Wolfe's mentioning the possibility that she had got hold of cyanide somewhere else, and learned a few days later that I had been right, when Purley Stebbins told me that they had found out where she got it, and could prove it. Anyhow, she was on her feet, and moving, but had taken only three steps when she had to stop. Cramer and Purley were both there blocking the way, and together they weigh four hundred pounds and are over four feet wide.
  One item. You may remember my mentioning that one day, the day after the murderer of Faith Usher was convicted, I was discussing with a friend what was the most conceited remark we had ever heard? It was that same day that I caught sight of Edwin Laidlaw in the men's bar at the Churchill and decided to do a good deed. Besides, I had felt that the amount on the bill we had sent him, which he had paid promptly without a murmur, had been pretty stiff, and he had something coming.
  Now, for the first time ever, enjoy a peek into the life of Nero Wolfe's creator, Rex Stout, courtesy of the Stout Estate. Pulled from Rex Stout's own archives, here are rarely seen, some never-before-published memorabilia. Each title in "The Rex Stout Library" will offer an exclusive look into the life of the man who gave Nero Wolfe life.
  Tour title department does pretty well in absentia. We are all, including the difficult Alan Green, quite satisfied with , and Bill English is going ahead with his jacket.
  My title department seems to be on vacation. I suggest either CHAMPAGNE FOR FAITH USHER or. Please let me know as soon as you decide which one to use; or if you think neither will do I'll try again.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about approached, exchanged, performed, deed.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Cramer never said. Mrs. Robilotti was on her feet. I had the idea then that what moved her was Wolfe's mentioning the possibility that she had got hold of cyanide somewhere else, and learned a few days later that I had been right, when Purley Stebbins told me that they had found out where she got it, and could prove it. Anyhow, she was on her feet, and moving, but had taken only three steps when she had to stop. Cramer and Purley were both there blocking the way, and together they weigh four hundred pounds and are over four feet wide. 
  One item. You may remember my mentioning that one day, the day after the murderer of Faith Usher was convicted, I was discussing with a friend what was the most conceited remark we had ever heard? It was that same day that I caught sight of Edwin Laidlaw in the men's bar at the Churchill and decided to do a good deed. Besides, I had felt that the amount on the bill we had sent him, which he had paid promptly without a murmur, had been pretty stiff, and he had something coming. So I approached him, and after greetings had been exchanged I performed the deed. 
  Now, for the first time ever, enjoy a peek into the life of Nero Wolfe's creator, Rex Stout, courtesy of the Stout Estate. Pulled from Rex Stout's own archives, here are rarely seen, some never-before-published memorabilia. Each title in "The Rex Stout Library" will offer an exclusive look into the life of the man who gave Nero Wolfe life. 
  Tour title department does pretty well in absentia. We are all, including the difficult Alan Green, quite satisfied with , and Bill English is going ahead with his jacket. 
  My title department seems to be on vacation. I suggest either CHAMPAGNE FOR FAITH USHER or. Please let me know as soon as you decide which one to use; or if you think neither will do I'll try again.