We reissued all her earlier work except for a few short stories, and we published her two last books.
The killing of a well-known congressman drew headlines when it happened, but except for a few periodic news stories, Mr. Sweeney has remained in relative obscurity since 1981, a year after the shooting.
Everything, except for a few of the short stories.
Now, except for a few of the Father Brown stories by Chesterton, for which I did not much care, I have not read any detective stories since one of the earliest, if not the earliest, of the imitators of Sherlock Holmes — a writer named Jacques Futrelle, now dead, who invented a character called the Thinking Machine and published his first volume of stories about him in 1907.
That would have been the end of the story, except for a few key details.
Characters from Yemen or Afghanistan pass through the story, but except for a few brief scenes we stay very much in our own back yard.
At the Capitol.The black-face comedian's burden is told in the film translation of George M. Cohan's play, "The Song and Dance Man," the story of which, except for a few good comedy interludes and an occasional flash of originality, is just about what one might expect from such a title.
Based, an author's note informs us, on "real events," the story is given mythic proportions; except for a few details scattered throughout the novel, it's hard to tell that the setting is contemporary.
