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The Piper on the Mountain

by Ellis Peters · 1966

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When Herbert Terrell falls off a mountain during a vacation in Czechoslovakia, accidental death is the verdict. Then his step-daughter Tossa receives a note suggesting Terrell was murdered—turning Tossa's long-planned European holiday with college friends into a hunt for the killer.

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medium · 202 pages

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