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The Cask

(1920)
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"A Cask containing money and a human hand...something has got to be done about it" Switching between locations in London and Paris, The Cask is one of Freeman Wills Crofts most ambitious and densely plotted novels. From the opening scenes in abusy shipyard, where a mysterious consignment reveals a pile of gold and the severed hand of an unidentified woman, Inspector Burnley follows the clues left by an enigmatic stranger to the seamy side of urban Paris to unravel a web of crime...


Genre: Mystery

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