A Good Read Writing as Anthony
โ Scribed by John Creasey
- Book ID
- 100602279
- Publisher
- House of Stratus Ltd
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 143 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- House of Stratus Ltd 2015.
- ISBN-13
- 9780755153787
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
The Earl of Lithorn is a very skilled rider, who nevertheless one day gets thrown by his horse and breaks his neck. Meanwhile, his daughter and heiress claims to have seen a corpse in the library with its throat slit. Is she hallucinating, or is there some deeper mystery that also extends to the death of the Earl? John Mannering (aka 'The Baron') investigates and is soon embroiled in a case that involves not just murder, but espionage and very real danger to himself.
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