An edition of The Cask (1920)

The cask

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An edition of The Cask (1920)

The cask

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A strange container is found on the London docks, and its contents point to murder

The cask from Paris is bigger than the rest, its sides reinforced to hold the extraordinary weight within. As the longshoremen are bringing it onto the London docks, the cask slips, cracks, and spills some of its treasure: a wealth of gold sovereigns. As the workmen cram the spilled gold into their pockets, an official digs through the opened box, which is supposed to contain a statue. Beneath the gold he finds a woman’s hand—as cold as marble, but made of flesh.

He reports the body to his superiors, but when he returns, the cask has vanished. The case is given to Inspector Burnley, a methodical detective of Scotland Yard, who will confront a baffling array of clues and red herrings, alibis and outright lies as he attempts to identify the woman in the cask—and catch the man who killed her.

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Publisher
Remploy
Language
English
Pages
357

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Edition Availability
Cover of: The Cask
The Cask
2020, Standard Ebooks
in English
Cover of: Le tonneau
Le tonneau
May 2, 1997, Rivages
Mass Market Paperback
Cover of: The cask
The cask
1977, Remploy
in English
Cover of: The cask
The cask
1929, T. Allen
microform / in English
Cover of: The cask
The cask
1924, T. Seltzer
in English

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Edition Notes

Facsimile reprint of: 1st ed. London : Collins, 1920.

Published in
London
Series
[Deerstalker series], Deerstalker series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.9/1

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 357 pages
Number of pages
357

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL37789486M
Internet Archive
cask0000crof_i9u5
ISBN 10
0706607147
ISBN 13
9780706607147
OCLC/WorldCat
16377294

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