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On a balmy summer's day in 1930 the great and the good of the county are out in force for the annual, much-anticipated tennis party at the Bickleighs, although not everyone has much enthusiasm for the game.
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Classical in form, intimate, grave and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Anthony Berkeley
- First published
- 1931
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Chivers Audio Books, Xing guang chu ban she, Ulverscroft Large Print
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9781409194644
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Anthony Berkeley Cox was an English crime writer who wrote as Anthony Berkeley, Frances Iles, and A. Monmouth Platts.
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