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The Incredible Crime

Lois Austen-Leigh

3.10/5 (377 ratings)

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Prince's College, Cambridge, is a peaceful and scholarly community, enlivened by Prudence Pinsent, the Master's daughter. Spirited, beautiful, and thoroughly unconventional, Prudence is a remarkable young woman.

One fine morning she sets out for Suffolk to join her cousin Lord Wellende for a few days' hunting. On the way Prudence encounters Captain Studde of the coastguard – who is pursuing a quarry of his own.

Studde is on the trail of a drug smuggling ring that connects Wellende Hall with the cloistered world of Cambridge. It falls to Prudence to unravel the identity of the smugglers – who may be forced to kill, to protect their secret.

This witty and entertaining crime novel has not been republished since the 1930s.

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:: The British Library

Edition:: British Library Crime Classics series

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0712356029

ISBN13:: 9780712356022

kindle Asin:: B07VPKQBLY

The Incredible Crime

Lois Austen-Leigh

3.10/5 (377 ratings)

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Prince's College, Cambridge, is a peaceful and scholarly community, enlivened by Prudence Pinsent, the Master's daughter. Spirited, beautiful, and thoroughly unconventional, Prudence is a remarkable young woman.

One fine morning she sets out for Suffolk to join her cousin Lord Wellende for a few days' hunting. On the way Prudence encounters Captain Studde of the coastguard – who is pursuing a quarry of his own.

Studde is on the trail of a drug smuggling ring that connects Wellende Hall with the cloistered world of Cambridge. It falls to Prudence to unravel the identity of the smugglers – who may be forced to kill, to protect their secret.

This witty and entertaining crime novel has not been republished since the 1930s.

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:: The British Library

Edition:: British Library Crime Classics series

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0712356029

ISBN13:: 9780712356022

kindle Asin:: B07VPKQBLY

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