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Name: Death on a Quiet Day

Author: Michael Innes
Year: 1957
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Mystery, Fiction

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ISBNs:
9780060806774
006080677X

Student David Henchman decides to spend a quiet day in the country to escape his boisterous classmate tormentors but gets more than he bargains for when he comes across a man with a bullet hole in his head. So begins a tlae of frenzied pursuit featuring a disappearing corpse, a mad race from a killer on the moors, a panicky girl, a flight by automobile, and an ivy-covered tower that contains the secret of death on a quiet day.

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