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TO LOVE AND BE WISE

TO LOVE AND BE WISE

JOSEPHINE TEY

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VINTAGE
Year of publication:
2022
ISBN:
978-1-5291-5643-0
Pages:
256
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It was rumoured that Hollywood stars would go to any lengths for the privilege of being photographed by the good-looking, brilliantly talented and ultra-fashionable portrait photographer Leslie Searle. But what was such a gifted creature doing in such an English village backwater as Salcott St Mary? And why -- and how -- did he disappear? If a crime had been committed, was it murder…fraud…or simply some macabre practical joke?

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