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PUBLISHER: Robert Hale
ISBN: 9780709090687
PAGES: 224 p.
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Avenging The Dead
Superintendent Henry Jarrett is under pressure from the Union Bank who are in the midst of a forgery scandal. Just as that inquiry gets under way, the murders begin. Each killing is claimed by a letter-writer calling himself the Scythe, who is in possession of the facts known only to the detectives.
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