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> He had a brown hat on his head, and a dirty belcher handkerchief round his neck: with the long frayed ends of which he smeared the beer from his face as he spoke. He disclosed, when he had done so, a broad heavy countenance with a beard of three days' growth, and two scowling eyes; one of which displayed various parti-coloured symptoms of having been recently damaged by a blow.
 
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Q: Looking for a short story about a phantom hot rod the police can't catch

Ed TessmacherApologies, I couldn't find another place to ask about this. It's driving me crazy that I can't find it again! I'm looking for a particular short story about a hot rod that speeds along the back country roads at night, and the local sheriff's department keeps setting up these ever more elaborate t...

 
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ok, so this is a bit weird
I'm looking for Tony Wolf books, in Hungarian translation. The odd thing is that used copies are more expensive than new ones. That's a problem because it may mean that the older editions are better in some way than the new ones.
They're all hardcover, so that's not the difference. I'm still browsing the library catalogs to see if there's only one translation or two. There are lots of different editions, and of course sometimes the entries in book stores and library catalogs are missing some data.
So I'll have to determine if I should just buy new copies quickly (they are cheap) so my nieces can get them for their birthday, or if I should research this in detail, by like trying to borrow library copies to see if the editions differ, and likely missing the deadline.

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