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The paperchase

The paperchase

by Marcel Theroux

2001FictionMycroft Holmes (Fictitious character)Inheritance and successionFamilyFiction, general
2.0
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About this book

Damien March is a disconsolate journalist working the nightshift at the BBC in London. He hasn't thought of his eccentric uncle for 20 years and so is shocked when he learns that he has inherited his uncle's ramshackle house on an isolated island off the coast of Cape Cod.

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FictionMycroft Holmes (Fictitious character)Inheritance and successionFamilyFiction, generalFamilies
First published 2001

About the author

Marcel Theroux

1968

Author

Marcel Theroux

First published

2001

Pages

279

Read time

≈ 7h

Editions

3

Language

English

Publisher

Faber and Faber

ISBN

9780571296866

Where to buy

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