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Dictator's Way: a Bobby Owen Mystery

โœ Scribed by Punshon, Ernest Robertson


Publisher
Dean Street Press
Year
2015
Tongue
English
Weight
157 KB
Series
Bobby Owen Mystery 10;Bobby Owen Mysteries
Category
Fiction
City
New York
ISBN
1910570400

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โœฆ Synopsis


Description

When an old acquaintance of Bobby Owen's from Oxford days turns up out of the blue, he needs help. Bobby little suspects that investigating the sinister enclave of 'Dictator's Way' will quickly set in train a series of momentous events, involving Bobby in a fistfight with an ex-professional boxer, kidnap, peril at sea and international intrigue - not to mention encounters with the mysterious and attractive Olive Farrar in whom Bobby might just have met his match.

Dictator's Way is the tenth of E.R. Punshon's acclaimed Bobby Owen mysteries, first published in 1938 and part of a series which eventually spanned thirty-five novels.

Praise

Praise

_"What is distinction? The few who achieve it step - plot or no plot - unquestioned into the first rank... in the works of Mr. E.R. Punshon we salute it every time." Dorothy L. Sayers

"Mr E.R. Punshon is one of the most entertaining and...

โœฆ Subjects


Murder -- Fiction


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