On New Year's Eve, 1940, James Paradine makes a speech to his family. Valuable documents have disappeared and the culprit has until midnight to confess. A few minutes after twelve James is dead and it is up to retired governess turned private...
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The Purloined...
Автор: Гарднер Эрл Стенли , Пронзини Билл
Серия: The Lost Classics
Язык: английский
Год: 2004
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