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|title=The City of Strangers
|author=Michael Russell
|rating=5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=In the spring of 1939 The Irish Times reported that Mrs Letitia Harris, aged 53 had gone missing from her home in Dublin. Her car was found the following morning on a cliff top near Shankill. There were bloodstains in the car, and a blood-stained hatchet in the shed back in Dublin, blood too in the flowerbed.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847563473</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Sherlock: His Last Bow
|summary=I've recently been discovering the original works of Raymond Chandler which, like many people, I'd only really known from the Hollywood renditions. A natural, if backwards, progression from there was clearly to the writer that Chandler called 'the ace performer', the man 'who did over and over again what only the best writers ever do at all'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800208</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Essie Fox
|title=Elijah's Mermaid
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Author Augustus Lamb receives a shocking letter from his publisher and old friend Frederick Hall. Hall has discovered Lamb's small grandchildren, Lily and Elijah, in a London home for foundlings. Lamb's son Gabriel had died after a socially unacceptable liaison with beautiful Italian Isabella who subsequently disappeared. Delighted beyond words at Hall's discovery, Augustus adopts the twins, raising them in his Herefordshire country home, Kingsland House. There the children grow, happy and loved.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409123340</amazonuk>
}}

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