title: The Clue of the Leaning Chimney (Nancy Drew, Book 26)
author:  Carolyn Keene 
description: As a result of an encounter with a sinister stranger on a lonely country road, Nancy Drew and her friend Bess Marvin discover that a rare and valuable Chinese vase has been stolen from the pottery shop of Dick Milton, a cousin of Bess.Join Nancy and her friends in their exciting adventures as they unravel all the twisted strands of this intriguing mystery.
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  ## Chimney-Pot Papers
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Charles S. Brooks
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Charles S. Brooks
  
  
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  **Chimney-Pot Papers**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To Minerva, my Wife
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  1920
  
  
  New Haven: Yale University Press.
  
  
  London: Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press
  
  
  Copyright, 1919, by Yale University Press.
  
  
  First published, 1919.
  
  
  Second printing, 1920.
  
  
  Publisher's Note:
  
  
  The Yale University Press makes grateful
  
  
  acknowledgment to the Editors of the
  
  
  
  
  
  _Unpopular Review_ and _The Century Magazine_
  
  
  for permission to include in the
  
  
  present volume, essays of which they were
  
  
  the original publishers.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## THE CHIMNEY-POTS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ![](images/i_002.png)y windows look across the roofs of the crowded city and
  my thoughts often take their suggestion from the life that is manifest at my
  neighbors' windows and on these roofs.
  
  
  Across the way, one story lower than our own, there dwells "with h