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Excerpt from Ann Sheridan and the Sign of the Sphinx: An Original Story Featuring Ann Sheridan, Famous Motion Picture Star as the Heroine If it were dark and the lights were on, the neon display would be much more effective. But even now, swaying from the suspended black bar, it did have the look of an old sampler. Since she turned the last corner, Ann Sheridan had kept her eyes on it, eagerly, expectantly. She thought to herself, Tess has come up another notch in the world. And I'm glad - glad! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

My dad had the Tom Stetson trilogy as a boy. I read them when I was a kid, and my son has read them as well. I am a cultural anthropologist, and I see now that these books were formative in the world view that led me to anthropology. That being said, these books are NOT anthropologically "correct," and indeed offensive in many ways. Nevertheless, a bright child with the proper cautionary guidance can work through the language ("savages"... "heathens"... "primitive"...etc.) and the subtexts (Kiplingesque "White Man's Burden" themes, naive modernization theory, etc.) to have a peek into a bygone era in a very compelling narrative. These books inspired me, and I thought they were hokey even as I read them, but they gave me a certain amount of cultural literacy, along with a burden of imperialist nostalgia that I easily learned to recognize and deconstruct. It makes for good conversations with my precocious 8 year old son. These are old school adventure pulp fiction books for kids, to be sure, but they are valuable as a time capsule and they have excited the imagination of young boys in my family for three generations. ( amazon customer)