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Damsel in Distress

by Carola Dunn · 1997

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Daisy Dalrymple, magazine writer and heiress, helps her pal Philip Petrie, whose sweetheart Gloria Arbuckle, daughter of a millionaire Yank, is kidnapped in 1923. Strictly forbidden to contact dashing Scotland Yard Inspector Alec Fletcher, she suspects trouble as she closes in on the abductors' rural hideway.

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BritishBritishMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of this
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Subject
historyhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 252 pages

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