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Copyright © 1945 Margery Allingham Ltd., a Chorion company. All Rights Reserved.
Margery Allingham has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 to be identified as the author of this work
None of the characters in this book is a portrait of a living person nor did the incidents here recorded ever take place.
First published in Great Britain in 1945 by William Heinemann
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