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BEGGAR'S CHOICE IBD

DEAN STREET PRESS
05 / 2016
9781911095538
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Sinopsis

&ldquo,Do you want to make 500 pounds? If you do and are willing to earn it, write to...&rdquo, So reads the handbill thrust on Car Fairfax. He is literally down and out, for the soles of his shoes had gone long ago and the uppers show a crack which mean doom to his hopes of a job. And he has just met Isobel: Isobel whom he had not seen for three long, weary years. But Car&rsquo,s road back to fortune is beset by mystifying experiences involving his cousin Anna, a precise gentleman in neat clothes and pince-nez, and a job whose sole duties &ndash, apparently &ndash, consist of dining in a fashionable restaurant. And then he is caught in a web which leads to the unravelling of the mystery surrounding his cousin Anna and finally to danger which threatens both Isobel and himself&hellip, Beggar&rsquo,s Choice was originally published in 1930. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans. &ldquo,When I pick up a book by Patricia Wentworth I think, now to enjoy myself &ndash, and I always do.&rdquo, Mary Dell, Daily Mirror