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12th in the Solar Pons Series
by Basil Copper, Illustrated by Stefanie K.Hawks.
Contents:
"The Adventure of the Callous Colonel"
"The Adventure of the Phantom Face"
"The Adventure of the Verger’s Thumb"
"Death at the...