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A crime novel featuring John Coffin, who is investigating cases of handbag slashing in London, he had a feeling that the cases were going to lead him to something far worse. A similar case appears in Murreinhead in Scotland, and then court officer was viciously attacke, the body of a missing Murreinhead woman is discovered in a tenement in London. What is the connection?
First publish date: 1966
Authors: Gwendoline Butler
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