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My Christmas Burglary

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Title:My Christmas Burglary
Author:
Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas   
(2 of 4 for author by title)
Q's Mystery Stories
Familiar Fields
Illustrator:
Broadhead, William Smithson   
Published:   1920
Publisher:Canadian Home Journal
Tags:Christmas, fiction, short story
Description:

A would be thief finds himself pulled into helping his intended victim with a children's Christmas party.--DPC [Suggest a different description.]

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Author Bio for Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas

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Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (21 November 1863—12 May 1944) was a Cornish writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monumental publication The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1900 (later extended to 1918) and for his literary criticism.

Arthur Quiller-Couch was born in the town of Bodmin, Cornwall, by the union of two ancient local families, the Quiller family and the Couch family. He was educated at Newton Abbot Proprietary College, at Clifton College, and Trinity College, Oxford. From 1886 he was for a brief time a classical lecturer at Trinity. After some journalistic experience in London, mainly as a contributor to the Speaker, he settled in 1891 at Fowey in Cornwall.

In Cornwall he was an active political worker for the Liberal Party; knighted in 1910, and in 1928 was made a Bard of the Cornish cultural society...

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