The Strange Countess
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
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Chapter 7
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Chapter 8
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Chapter 9
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Chapter 10
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Chapter 11
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Chapter 12
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Chapter 13
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Chapter 14
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Chapter 15
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Chapter 16
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Chapter 17
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Chapter 18
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Chapter 19
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Chapter 20
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Chapter 21
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Chapter 22
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Chapter 23
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Chapter 24
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Chapter 25
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Chapter 26
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Chapter 27
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Chapter 28
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Chapter 29
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Chapter 30
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Chapter 31
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Chapter 32
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Chapter 33
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Chapter 34
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Chapter 35
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Chapter 36
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The Strange Countess (1926) is a public domain work.
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About this book
Lois Reddle is an orphan and a quick, capable young clerk who has made her own way from a cash desk in Leeds to a London law office. When the story begins she is reading a letter on gilt-crested paper: the Countess of Moron expects her as resident secretary at a house in Chester Square. Her flatmate Lizzy Smith is cheerful and blunt, her landlord Rab Mackenzie plays the fiddle at night, and a polite young man named Michael Dorn seems to turn up wherever she goes.
Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) builds a London crime story from these ordinary details. Once Lois moves into the countess's house, there are accidents, a warning she cannot explain, and a police sergeant from the Criminal Investigation Department waiting in the shadows. Dorn has his own theories about stolen post and a plan to catch a real thief.
It is a brisk mystery of 1926, short on padding and full of period London.
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- Author
- Edgar Wallace
- Reading time
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- Genre
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