A remarkable case of burglary /
H.R.F. Keating.
- 1st ed. in the United States of America.
- Garden City, N.Y. : Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday, 1976, 1975.
- 185 pages ; 22 cm
Val Leary is handsome, charming and broke. On the morning of April Fool's Day 1871, while walking through one of London's wealthiest districts, he notices a young maidservant scrubbing the steps of 53 Northbourne Park Villas. In that instant he conceives the idea for a remarkable case of burglary. The set-up seems perfect, but chance intervenes in a succession of coincidences that place the jewels further and further beyond the reach of Val and his cronies - until ...
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Detective and mystery stories.
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