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                                   February 26, 2004
                    
   "A fair-haired girl, wearing 
   one of the transparent picture 
   hats which were fasionable in that 
   year 1936, stepped in through 
   the open window."
   
        Death Turns the Tables (1941) 
        by John Dickson Carr
           
   
   "What if bravado prompter her to wear one 
   of the lewd dresses invented by Lady Caroline Lamb? ... 
   This dress consisted of nothing whatever except a 
   gown of transparent muslin, dampened with water so 
   that it should adhere to the body." -- p.9
                                             
        The Bride of Newgate (1950), set in 1815   
        by John Dickson Carr                       
                                                   
                                                   


                                           
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