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For the Defence by Fergus Hume is a British mystery about an insurmountable rivalry, a confounding love triangle, and an array of delicious and tantalizing scandals. Excerpt: "Laurence Jen was a retired major, a bachelor, and the proprietor of a small estate at Hurstleigh, in Surrey. On leaving the service, he decided--not unwisely--that it was better to be a Triton in the country than a minnow in town; and acting upon this theory he purchased "Ashantee" from a ruined squire. Formerly the place had been called Sarbylands, after its original owners; but Jen had changed the name, in honor of the one campaign in which he had participated. He had been present at the downfall of King Koffee…"
© 2019 Good Press (eBook): 4064066167578
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Literatura Obyczajowa
For the Defence by Fergus Hume is a British mystery about an insurmountable rivalry, a confounding love triangle, and an array of delicious and tantalizing scandals. Excerpt: "Laurence Jen was a retired major, a bachelor, and the proprietor of a small estate at Hurstleigh, in Surrey. On leaving the service, he decided--not unwisely--that it was better to be a Triton in the country than a minnow in town; and acting upon this theory he purchased "Ashantee" from a ruined squire. Formerly the place had been called Sarbylands, after its original owners; but Jen had changed the name, in honor of the one campaign in which he had participated. He had been present at the downfall of King Koffee…"
© 2019 Good Press (eBook): 4064066167578
Data wydania
eBook: 16 grudnia 2019
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