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The Shooting Party

โœ Scribed by Chekhov, Anton

Book ID
110492373
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
165 KB
Series
Penguin Classics
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780141906812

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โœฆ Synopsis

When a young woman dies during a shooting party at the country estate of a dissolute count, a magistrate is called upon to investigate. The mystery deepens and suspicion falls more widely as it emerges that the dead woman was at the centre of a tangled web of relationships: with her elderly husband, with the lecherous count, and with the magistrate himself...

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