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An English Murder

by Cyril Hare

Recommendations from our site

Our most recommended books

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie

All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P D James

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

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The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler

A Murder is Announced
by Agatha Christie

All the Sinners Bleed
by S.A. Cosby

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
by P D James

The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle

Gaudy Night
by Dorothy L. Sayers