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Man Overboard
Written by Edmund Crispin
Narrated by Gordon Griffin
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A short story from British Library Crime Classic Deep Waters. Detective Inspector Humbleby explains to series favourite Gervase Fen why the police like blackmail cases when relaying the story of two American brothers, Saul and Harry Colonna, and their boating fun that ended in disaster.
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