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Deodand
Before you scratch your head about why I put this book on my Canadian Authors shelf, Lord Tweedsmuir was a Governor General of Canada, which makes him an honorary Canadian. So there.

This was a true "liked it" three star rating. Plenty of other reviews complain about the triteness but you always have to read a book as a product of its time. Many other books came after this one as direct imitations.

The protagonist is eminently capable at spycraft, and the story's fairly predictable to a modern aud
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Bella
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Cairnraiser
Nov 01, 2007 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Terpsicore
Jun 20, 2008 rated it liked it
Sasha
Jun 30, 2008 rated it really liked it
akaellen
Jul 23, 2008 marked it as to-read
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Donna
Sep 25, 2008 marked it as to-read
Amber
Jun 26, 2009 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Jeni
May 19, 2010 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Laura
Apr 11, 2011 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Chas
Aug 13, 2011 marked it as to-read
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Athena
Apr 26, 2012 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Cynthia Paschen
Jan 10, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Ryan
Feb 06, 2017 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: classics, fiction, 2017
Anna
Nov 07, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Peggy
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