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A Remarkable Case of Burglary
- Narrated by: Sheila Mitchell
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
Summary
Val Leary is handsome, charming and broke. On the morning of April Fool's Day 1871, while walking through one of London's wealthiest districts, he notices a young maidservant scrubbing the steps of 53 Northbourne Park Villas. In that instant he conceives the idea for a remarkable case of burglary.
The set-up seems perfect, but chance intervenes in a succession of coincidences that place the jewels further and further beyond the reach of Val and his cronies - until...
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