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Carfax Abbey

Basil Thomson

Publisher: Librorium Editions

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Summary

A rich but curmudgeonly old man dies suddenly, and there is evidence of murder. But what was he doing in the night, in a seldom visited part-ruined chapel in his country estate of Carfax Abbey? Who was the man seen racing from the scene in an Essex motor car?
Available since: 12/05/2021.

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