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    de Bercy Affair
    de Bercy Affair
    de Bercy Affair
    Audiobook7 hours

    de Bercy Affair

    Written by Louis Tracy

    Narrated by Lee Smalley

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    A beautiful French actress with concealed origins and a clandestine involvement with a group of anarchists is brutally murdered in London. Circumstances lead Scotland Yard to several suspects, including her wealthy American fiancé, a couple of the anarchists, and even a respected “Yard” detective. The search for the killer sets off an absorbing mystery with an interesting cast of characters and plot twists. Gordon Holmes is a pen-name of Louis Tracy (1863-1928), a British journalist and prolific writer of fiction.(Lee Smalley)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    Louis Tracy

    Louis Tracy was a British journalist and prolific writer of fiction. He used the pseudonyms Gordon Holmes and Robert Fraser, which were at times shared with M. P. Shiel, a collaborator of Tracy’s throughout the twentieth century.  

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