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Bess, back in England in early 1917, passes through a London train station and witnesses an emotional farewell between a woman and an officer. She later realizes that the woman is the wife of one of her patients, a young pilot burned beyond recognition. When she is back on duty in France, a drawing of the woman on the front page of the paper is accompanied by a request from Scotland Yard, seeking information from anyone who has seen her.
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Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries volume 21
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English
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A tip from an ex-convict seems implausible--but Inspector Ian Rutledge is intrigued and brings it to his superior at Scotland Yard. Alan Barrington, who has evaded capture for ten years, is the suspect in an appalling murder during Black Ascot, the famous 1910 royal horserace honoring the late King Edward VII. His disappearance began a manhunt that consumed Britain for a decade. Now it appears that Barrington has turned to England, giving Scotland...
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World War I novels volume 4
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English
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In 1917, when an arrogant and incompetent British commander turns up dead, a reluctant Joseph Reavley searches for the truth about the crime and about the twelve men accused of the murder, journeying behind enemy lines to find the individual responsible.
Chaplain Joseph Reavley is three years into his service in the trenches of Ypres on the western front. The British army has suffered appalling losses, and the men are exhausted, hungry, and afraid....
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Florence Norris mysteries volume 2
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Severn House Pub Ltd
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2015.
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English
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November, 1932. Still reeling from the recent murder at Mullings, country estate of the wealthy Stodmarsh family, the peaceful little village of Dovecote Hatch is about to be rocked by news of another violent death. When mild-mannered Kenneth Tenneson is found dead from a fall down the stairs at his home, the coroner's inquest announces a verdict of accidental death. Florence Norris, however -the quietly observant housekeeper at Mullings - suspects...