Murder in Wax
โ Scribed by Peter Baron
- Publisher
- Phocion Publishing
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 204 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Chicago
- ISBN
- 1789128935
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โฆ Synopsis
Murder in Wax, first published in 1931, is an ingenious 'golden-age' mystery featuring an evil criminal mastermind known as 'the Squid,' who hides his identity behind a ghastly wax mask with a hinged jaw. A young man, searching for his abducted girlfriend, attempts to solve the murders. Peter Baron was the pen-name of Leonard Worswick Clyde (1906-1987) who authored four detective novels.
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