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The Skeleton in the Closet

by M.C. Beaton · 2001

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Fellworth Dolphin, 38, finds out his miserly dominating late parents hid a fortune in the bank, and in cash. Fell teams up with plain waitress Maggie to investigate an unsolved 1977 train robbery his father may have committed, and the aristocratic home he is named after. Someone tries to murder them. Will they find love or death?

Genre
British mysterymysterycozy mysterycrimeromance
Setting
2000sEnglandEurope
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 218 pages

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