The Black Avons II - Roundhead and Cavalier

Edgar Wallace

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This is an absorbing work by Edgar Wallace, a British novelist, playwright, and journalist who was a famous writer of detective and suspense stories.
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"IN conformity with the rule and practice of our family, I, Stephen Avon, Knight, and Alderman of the City of London (I make these descriptions from a desire to be identified rather than from any sense of vanity, for it ill becomes a man to boast of the favours which Almighty God has bestowed upon him) take up my task to describe those events which accompany, as it were, the lives of those dark members of my family, who are called the Black Avons."

Disponibile da: 12/11/2021.

Lunghezza di stampa: 45 pagine.

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