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Kemball predicts that the suit will be unsuccessful, and take many years to resolve.
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It was not a very tactful remark, seeing that Kemball had quite recently been hanged for murdering his wife.
Best Detective Stories Hare, Cyril, 1900-1958 1959
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"I have always thought, " said Prothero, rather pontifically, 'that the Kemball case was one of the most successful examples of modern detective methods.
Best Detective Stories Hare, Cyril, 1900-1958 1959
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I looked at it this way: Kemball was every bit as bad as a murderer.
Best Detective Stories Hare, Cyril, 1900-1958 1959
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If Kemball was acquitted it meant that her will leaving everything to him was good.
Best Detective Stories Hare, Cyril, 1900-1958 1959
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At the same time Lt. Kemball and I kept the remainder occupied in breaking up blocks of holystone in an effort to make sand out of them ....
Graf Spee Pope, Dudley 1956
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“Make it fifty, dear child,” said Mrs. Bradley, waving a skinny claw as though she were scattering largesse — as, indeed, thought poor Kemball, reflecting that if he sold a hundred copies of his work he would be doing very well indeed, she was!
Death at the Opera Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1939
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Mr.. Bradley was determined not to give him a clue to the identity of the original, but took the photograph straight away to Mr. Kemball.
Death at the Opera Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1939
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Kemball meekly agreed that he had taken the part as stated.
Death at the Opera Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1939
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She eyed him with the glance of a predatory beast for its prey, and Kemball, who would ordinarily have replied to such a suggestion with a trenchant reference to his teacherless class, sat down on the edge of the nearest chair and waited to hear what she had to say.
Death at the Opera Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1939
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