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Cask

A mysterious murder takes place and the suspicion is thrown on an innocent man.

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  • "Cask"@it
  • "Cask"
  • "Frau im Fass"
  • "Inspector French and the Starvel tragedy"@it
  • "cask"@ja
  • "Incendio nella brughiera"
  • "Tre segugi"

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  • "A mysterious murder takes place and the suspicion is thrown on an innocent man."@en
  • "From a busy shipyard where a mysterious consignment reveals a pile of gold and the severed hand of an unidentified woman, Inspector Burnley follows the clues left by an enigmatic stranger to the seamy side of urban Paris to unravel a web of crime."
  • "Paris and the shipping business are featured in this puzzle plot. A mysterious murder takes place and the suspicion is thrown on an innocent man."
  • "1912. Une jeune femme richement parée est retrouvée étranglée dans un tonneau sur les docks de Londres. Deux coupables semblent probables : l'amant éconduit et le mari jaloux. Mais l'un cherche à accuser l'autre... Les deux policiers, Lefarge et Burnley, ne sont pas au bout de leurs peines pour parvenir à résoudre ce crime diabolique.--[Memento]."
  • "A strange container is found on the London docks, and its contents point to murder The cask from Paris is bigger than the rest, its sides reinforced to hold the extraordinary weight within. As the longshoremen are bringing it onto the London docks, the cask slips, cracks, and spills some of its treasure: a wealth of gold sovereigns. As the workmen cram the spilled gold into their pockets, an official digs through the opened box, which is supposed to contain a statue. Beneath the gold he finds a woman & rsquo;s hand & mdash;as cold as marble, but made of flesh. He reports the body to his superiors, but when he returns, the cask has vanished. The case is given to Inspector Burnley, a methodical detective of Scotland Yard, who will confront a baffling array of clues and red herrings, alibis and outright lies as he attempts to identify the woman in the cask & mdash;and catch the man who killed her. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices."@en
  • "A woman's corpse is found in a cask shipped from Paris to"

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  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Mystery and detective fiction"
  • "Mystery and detective fiction"@en
  • "Translations"@en

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  • "Tongzi"
  • "Taru"@ja
  • "Taru"
  • "Die Frau im Fass : Roman"
  • "Le Tonneau"
  • "Cask"@en
  • "An Soitheach ... Diarmaid Ó Súilleabháin d'aistrigh"@en
  • "Tong zi = The cask"
  • "I tre segugi"@it
  • "I tre segugi"@en
  • "I tre segugi"
  • "Die Frau im Faß : Roman"
  • "桶子 = The cask"
  • "Salaperäinen tynnyri : romaani"@fi
  • "I tre segugi ; L'incendio nella brughiera"
  • "I tre segugi ; L'incendio nella brughiera"@it
  • "An Soitheach"
  • "樽"
  • "[The Cask.]"@en
  • "[The Cask.]"
  • "The cask"
  • "The cask"@en
  • "Le tonneau"
  • "An soitheach = The cask"
  • "Tong zi"
  • "The Cask"
  • "The Cask"@en
  • "桶子"

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