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• Writer still cherished among foremost of Scotland's top novelists
• You can get evens on a good man being a successful novelist
• Flat on street taken by minor Scottish writer
• Novelist losing heart in short, short service
• Heavyweight poet, displacing seven tons
• '— seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins' (G. K. Chesterton)
• Good chap with just the same name as writer
• Scottish author nevertheless Samoan at the end, by the way
• Man who wrote religious text finally shortened church service
• Stone's odds-on to become a novelist
• Author, nevertheless, seen in street before noon
• Author stumped by incomplete service
• R. L. —, author
• Author of Kidnapped
• Democratic presidential nominee before Kennedy