- Fiction, Police, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, Lawyers, fiction
The new lawyer Henry Bohun had joined the firm to work on insurance cases, not murders, but... *"At eleven o'clock this morning a partner in this firm of solicitors — what's their name? — Horniman, Birley and Craine, opened one of their deed boxes. The box was supposed to contain papers relating to a trust. What they found was one of the trustees. Name of Smallbone — Marcus Smallbone — very dead."*
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Classical in form, cool, grave and earnest.
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- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Michael Francis Gilbert
- First published
- 1950
- Pages
- 234
- Publisher
- Magna Large Print Books, House of Stratus, Incorporated, Poisoned Pen
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140038101
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Michael Francis Gilbert, CBE, TD, was an English solicitor and author of crime fiction, detective and mystery stories, thrillers, history and historical fiction, spy fiction, and paranormal fiction.
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