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Dead Men Tell No Tales - cover

Dead Men Tell No Tales

Ernest William Hornung

Publisher: BookRix

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Summary

A marvelous adventure story with plenty of twists and turns! The writing is great, and the plot moves quickly with plenty of hair-raising danger. Hornung is a master at painting lovable scoundrels and villains that you love to the point where you actually want them to succeed in their crimes and escape the police! Excellent characters balanced on the sides of good and evil!
Available since: 12/19/2023.
Print length: 224 pages.

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