When two male students execute a rag against the nearby Calladale women's agricultural college--a prank involving rhubarb and dead rats--the ladies decide to give the men back some of their own. They collect the litter and sneak it over to a pub...
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Автор: Symonds Tim
Серия: Sherlock Holmes (by Tim Symonds) #5
Язык: английский
Год: 2016
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