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Title details for The Painswick Line by Henry Cecil - Available

The Painswick Line

by Henry Cecil
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Lucy Meeson-Smith works at a big bookmakers and always manages to back the back winners. Her employers become suspicious and take her to court for fraud. At her trial it is revealed that her father, a vicar, studies form avidly and is a brilliant tipster (though he himself is not a betting man). The judge in the case, Mr Justice Painswick is most intrigued by the evidence. His own personal life is complicated by his son - a thoroughgoing cad who is deeply in debt. Find out how these personalities are brought together in a lively and unexpected way in this witty, upbeat novel.

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Series: Mr. Tewkesbury Publisher: House of Stratus

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  • ISBN: 9780755129454
  • File size: 432 KB
  • Release date: September 30, 2012

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780755129454
  • File size: 432 KB
  • Release date: September 30, 2012

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subjects

Fiction Mystery Thriller

Languages

English

Lucy Meeson-Smith works at a big bookmakers and always manages to back the back winners. Her employers become suspicious and take her to court for fraud. At her trial it is revealed that her father, a vicar, studies form avidly and is a brilliant tipster (though he himself is not a betting man). The judge in the case, Mr Justice Painswick is most intrigued by the evidence. His own personal life is complicated by his son - a thoroughgoing cad who is deeply in debt. Find out how these personalities are brought together in a lively and unexpected way in this witty, upbeat novel.

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Fiction Mystery Thriller