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309 Pages·1990·25.3526 MB·other
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Missing from her home... Mrs. Daphne Gosse, whose husband seeks her return. It is feared she might be the victim of foul play. A written insertion—hoax or desperate husband's cry for help?—to the Personal Column of the Daily Echo prompts the Editor to alert Detective Superintendent George Rogers to investigate a complex case of domestic drama. Daphne, thirty-one, sleekly, darkly lithe, with a "splendid body," is the wife of Clifford Gosse, unequivocally described as "the sort of chappie to have cut the lady into bite-sized pieces and fed her to the dogs." Secretary to the apparently blameless headmaster of the local school, Daphne appears to have a history of amorous adventures and to have led a reckless personal life. A nocturnal conflagration intended to conceal a badly mutilated body, the mystery of the victim's missing solicitor, the discovery of a subterranean tomb, all point to a killer of exceptional ingenuity
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