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Beggar's Choice

Beggar's Choice Patricia Wentworth (Estate)
Pub date 1930
Publisher (UK) Dean Street Press
Publisher (US) Open Road

“Do you want to make 500 pounds? If you do and are willing to earn it, write to…”

 

So reads the handbill thrust on Car Fairfax. He is literally down and out, for the soles of his shoes had gone long ago and the uppers show a crack which mean doom to his hopes of a job. And he has just met Isobel: Isobel whom he had not seen for three long, weary years.

 

But Car’s road back to fortune is beset by mystifying experiences involving his cousin Anna; a precise gentleman in neat clothes and pince-nez; and a job whose sole duties – apparently – consist of dining in a fashionable restaurant. And then he is caught in a web which leads to the unravelling of the mystery surrounding his cousin Anna and finally to danger which threatens both Isobel and himself…

 

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