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Athwart Thy Pedestal
Two Legs At Lunch
One Against The Best
The Man Who Shot ....

These four novels make up the “Archaeo-Western Quartet.” Complete the last title with a word or phrase.

 

SOLVED by mossydottir
Clues explained below fold

The sphinx is often depicted on a pedestal.
“What goes on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?”
One Against the Bes[t] = One Against Thebes (see link)

Posted by Søren Renner on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 10:59 AM in
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Posted by Q on March 16, 2010, 01:06 PM | #

Athwart Thy Pedestal
Two Legs At Lunch
One Against The Best
The Man Who Shot .... Liberty Valance He shot Liberty Valance. He was the bravest of them all.

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Posted by Guessedworker on March 16, 2010, 04:56 PM | #

Hermann, formerly Arminius?

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Posted by Gorboduc on March 16, 2010, 07:57 PM | #

Well I thought it was Liberty Valance too, but as I so rarely agree wholeheartedly with a lot of the posts here, I’ll go for Yitzhak Rabin. Or Abraham Lincoln.

The man who shot
The traitor Abe
Untimely got
An early grabe.

(Ihad a cold when I wrote this)

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Posted by mossydottir on March 16, 2010, 11:08 PM | #

The Man Who Shot the Sphinx.

... Oedipus?

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Posted by Søren Renner on March 16, 2010, 11:12 PM | #

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