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The raspPhilip MacDonald

The rasp

Philip MacDonald
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A victim is bludgeoned to death with a woodworker’s rasp in this first case for the famed gentleman detective Anthony Gethryn - the latest in a new series of classic detective novels from the vaults of HarperCollins. Ex-Secret Service agent Anthony Gethryn is killing time working for a newspaper when he is sent to cover the murder of Cabinet minister John Hoode, bludgeoned to death in his country home with a wood-rasp. Gethryn is convinced that the prime suspect, Hoode’s secretary Alan Deacon, is innocent, but to prove it he must convince the police that not everyone else has a cast-iron…

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10 editions
  • Other · English · 2021
    Rasp
    Start Publishing LLC · 9781649741479
  • Other · English · 2020
    Rasp
    Wilder Publications, Incorporated · 9781515449072
  • Other · English · 2020
    Rasp (Detective Club Crime Classics)
    HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780008369729
  • Other · English · 2020
    Rasp
    Wilder Publications, Incorporated · 9781515449089
  • Other · English · 2015
    Rasp
    HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780008148126
  • Other · English · 2015
    Rasp
    HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 240 pages · 9780008148119
Fiction in EnglishAnthony Gethryn (fictional character)Fiction, mystery & detective, generalFiction, crimeFiction, thrillers, historicalFiction, thrillers, crime