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A Grave Coffin
- Narrated by: Nigel Carrington
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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With the papers near the mutilated body of Harry Seton is a note: "Ask Coffin."
Seton was a detective doing undercover work on the sale of illegal pharmaceuticals. No one, including John Coffin, Commander of London's Second City, knows what the note means, but it appears that Seton was secretly investigating internal police corruption.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-03-22
Missing last 7 lines of chapter
The narration misses the final seven lines of the book which is very annoying!
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- LizzyL
- 31-12-21
This is a much better book.
Unfortunately I can't remember title of the last book of Gwendolyn Butlers I read!But this is a much better book.