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- ↑ The BFI Companion to Crime, ed Phil Hardy, Cassell (1997), p. 53
- ↑ Famous Movie Detectives II, Michael R Pitts (1991),p.123
- ↑ The Unknown 1930s: An Alternative History of the British Cinema, 1929- 1939, edited by Jeffrey Richards, IB Tauris (1998), pp.92-93
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