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Rachel N.
Aug 20, 2012 rated it liked it
Inspector Alan Grant travels to Scotland to holiday and deal with his panic attacks. While getting off the train Alan notes the porter roughly handling a dead body. Alan accidentallytakes the dead mans newspaper which has a poem written on it which intrigues Alan. A bit slow is spots.
Linda
Dec 01, 2015 rated it liked it
ok... bit of a challeneging read. Written in the 1950's by an English author using a more scholarly vernacular. Super slow to get into but again, I was compelled to finish,so it wasn't all bad. ...more
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Jan 31, 2021 marked it as to-read
I learned of this book here: https://youtu.be/-PlXooB32Ps ...more
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