It is the custom, particularly among magistrates, to attribute half the crimes of the Metropolis to cheap novelettes.

NM: revision of 4 separate novelettes into novel.

SCHINNERER, OTTO P. Viennese novelettes.

"During the particular days of which I shall tell you, he was engaged in the writing of a fantastic novelette, 'The Force of the Wind,' a work which interested him greatly, and which he would interrupt unwillingly at intervals to furnish copy for the well-known newspaper that numbered him among the members of its staff.

It is natural and proper enough that the masses of explosive ammunition stored up in detective stories and the replete and solid sweet-stuff shops which are called sentimental novelettes should be popular with the ordinary customer.

It was nonsense this being in love; there wasn't such a thing as love outside of trashy novelettes.