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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When in 1912 an elderly pawnbroker, Multenius, is murdered a young, poor writer, Andrew Lauriston, is accused of the crime.
Not a simple straightforward story but somewhat complicated and meandering, but overall an enjoyable mystery.