The Mystery of Cloomber
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
0933852673
Publish date: 1987-04-28
Publisher: Greenhill Crime Classics
Pages no: 259
Edition language: English
This is a great mystery, told in the same sparse but eloquent style used with the Holmes stories. I could, and did as I was reading, nitpick about a few things, which is why I went with 4 stars. Don't ask me what they were though; I just finished it, and yet can't put my finger on what I found lac...
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7964I John Fothergill West, student of law in the University of St. Andrews, have endeavoured in the ensuing pages to lay my statement before the public in a concise and business-like fashion.
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