A Keating, H. R. F. (Henry Reymond Fitzwalter) 1926-2011 creator text Fictional Work Mystery fiction. Mystery and detective fiction. Romans. nyu Garden City, N.Y Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday 1976, 1975 1976 1st ed. in the United States of America. monographic eng

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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 ... H.R.F. Keating. Detective and mystery stories PZ4. K22 0385113870 9780385113878 75021232 DLC 751202 20250623100004.0 ocm01973859 eng