# The Purple Pterodactyls

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- Book: [The Purple Pterodactyls](https://www.bookquiver.com/l-sprague-decamp/the-purple-pterodactyls) ([The Purple Pterodactyls.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/l-sprague-decamp/the-purple-pterodactyls.md))
- Authors: [L. Sprague deCamp](https://www.bookquiver.com/l-sprague-decamp)
- Publisher: gateway
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-05-7510-352-8
- Published: 2011-09-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Being the adventures of W. Wilson Newbury, mild-mannered - and mildly ensorcelled - gentleman banker. L. Sprague de Camp, winner of the Gandolf Award as a Grand Master of Fantasy, reveals within these pages the curious story of his friendship with W. Wilson " Willy" Newbury, for whom the realm of the super-natural seems to have a strange affinity. - A horse discloses its violent - non-equine - past. - A manufacturer reveals a particularly unacceptable form of non-union labour. - Formaldehyde is shown to be a better preservative than even its inventor would have hoped. - A game of chances takes on serious overtones, and all for a most unlikely prize.