Marco Page's Fast Company is probably an early example of the bibliomystery in English (the first ever bibliomystery is from 1874: Scrope, or, The Lost Library by Frederic Perkins, followed by The Colfax Bookplate, 1926, by Agness Miller) while the movie adaption of Fast Company is most likely the first bibliomystery in cinema.

If he had a fault as a conversationalist, it was a certain tendency to monotony, a certain lack of sparkle and variety in his small-talk.

The face of the Negero indicating a mixture of a beastial spirit and lustuous might of body prehending.

‘The man is ill-tempered, envious, and above all prideful.’