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The Man Who Didn't Fly

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The British Library
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An evocative read, featuri...
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An evocative read, featuring all the suspenseful and intriguing elements you can expect in a murder mystery from Britain's ‘golden age’ of crime writing. The Man Who Didn't Fly: a plane goes down in the Irish sea and three mysterious passengers are lost but who was the fourth passenger and why didn’t he fly? A suspenseful tale set in London, Ireland and Wales. First published in 1955. Also includes the short story 'No Bath for the Browns’, originally published in 1945.

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19 x 13cm
252 pages

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