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Set in a sleepy Devonshire hamlet in 1930, the novel follows the county’s annual tennis fête at the Bickleigh estate. Dr Edmund Bickleigh, the host, is torn between a passionate affair with Gwynfryd Rattery and a dark resolve to murder his wife, all while hiding the affair from the town’s elite.
First publish date: 1968
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Cozy Mystery
Authors: Anthony Berkeley
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