J. S. Fletcher 
The Cartwright Gardens Murder [EPUB ebook] 

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Cartwright Gardens lies in the far east corner of Bloomsbury, somewhat south of the dreary Euston Road, and somewhat north of the still drearier quarter that fringes on the western confines of Clerkenwell. Whoever knows nothing of it and goes thither on a voyage of discovery must not expect what the name, taken literally, would seem to suggest—here are neither bushes nor brakes, flowers nor fruits. What is here is a drab and dismal crescent of houses, fronted by an enclosure wherein soot and grime descend on the London plane tree and the London turf; an oasis, perhaps, in the surrounding wilderness of shabby streets, but only, as things go, for the brave sparrow and his restless stalker, the lodging-house cat. Maybe the place has seen better days; in these it presents a frontage of mean houses, in each of which it is all Lombard Street to a China orange that you would find, if not more families than one, at any rate a lodger or lodgers in addition to the nominal tenant

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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 210 ● ISBN 9782385746469 ● Taille du fichier 0.2 MB ● Maison d’édition Librorium Editions ● Publié 2024 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 9442718 ● Protection contre la copie DRM sociale

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