βAn elegant page-turner of nineteenth-century detective fiction.ββThe Washington Post Book WorldOne rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton a freelance writer, sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father. Whi
E L Doctorow - The Waterworks
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- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 139 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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