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Harriet Shaw is a proper pupil at an English boarding school where she is strictly expected to conform. When two less‑respectable classmates persuade her to join a midnight skinny‑dipping party, Harriet finds herself not only bereft of her clothes and facing possible expulsion, but also caught in the middle of a fatal crime. The event thrusts her into the position of a key eyewitness, putting her education and future at risk as the investigation unfolds in her school’s damp halls.
First publish date: 1976
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Historical Mystery
Authors: P Lovesey
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