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    For the Defense: A Traditional British Mystery
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    For the Defense: A Traditional British Mystery

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    "For the Defense" is a traditional British murder mystery, set in Victorian England.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEonn Publishing
    Release dateApr 13, 2017
    ISBN9788826074726
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    For the Defense: A Traditional British Mystery
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    Fergus Hume

    Fergus Hume (1859–1932) was born in England and raised in New Zealand. He immigrated to Australia in 1885 and was working as a clerk in a Melbourne barrister’s office when he wrote The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886). The bestselling crime novel of the nineteenth century, it served as inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes.

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