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Seventeenth in the long-running mystery series with Dr Launcelot Priestley.
>**When one of the Robthorne twins commits suicide, there is a question over which one it is and whether it was, in fact, suicide or murder.**
>Dr. Priestley, well-known crime investigator, is called in to solve the mysterious death of Mr. Robthorne, who has been found shot in the greenhouse of his twin brother's country estate. A chain of damning evidence that Dr. Priestley pieces so successfully together forms one of the finest examples of crime detection that Mr. John Rhode has yet produced.
First publish date: 1934
Authors: Cecil John Charles Street
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