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And Five Were Foolish, Classics To Go

And Five Were Foolish is a 1924 collection of short stories by the English author Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer), first published in The Windsor Magazine. The book consists of ten short stories, several of which were inspired by incidents and places known to Mercer. The title of each is the name of a significant female character.

Dornford Yates

Dornford Yates was the pseudonym of the English novelist Cecil William Mercer (7 August 1885 – 5 March 1960), whose novels and short stories, some humorous (the Berry books), some thrillers (the Chandos books), were best-sellers in the period between the First and Second World Wars.

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