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Pilfered Promises by M. Louisa Locke
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt is the winter of 1880, and the future looks promising for Annie and Nate Dawson. Nate’s law practice is taking off. Annie has made the transition from pretend clairvoyant to a successful financial consultant. And they are looking forward to spending their first Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays together... -
![The Giant Rat of Sumatra by Richard L. Boyer]()
The Giant Rat of Sumatra by Richard L. Boyer
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn deference to Sherlock Holmes’s wishes, Dr Watson kept the tale of The Giant Rat of Sumatra a secret. However before he died he arranged that the bizarre story of the giant rat should be held in the vaults of a London bank until all the protagonists were dead....Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed detective stories... -
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Sherlock Holmes e il diabolico piano di Moriarty by David Stuart Davies
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Veiled Detective takes a fresh, exciting and controversial look at the relationship between the great detective Sherlock Holmes, his friend and chronicler, Doctor John H. Watson and Professor Moriarty. The novel deconstructs the myth of Sherlock Holmes and reveals a fascinating and excitingly dramatic alternative view of the man... -
![Edinburgh Dusk by Carole Lawrence]()
Edinburgh Dusk by Carole Lawrence
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe prize-winning author of Edinburgh Twilight returns to the darkening shadows of nineteenth-century Scotland to track a killer on a profane mission of revenge...Categorized as:
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![Destroying Angel by S.G. MacLean]()
Destroying Angel by S.G. MacLean
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWINNER OF THE 2019 CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER'A gripping tale of crime and sedition' Sunday Times on The Black Friar'The best historical crime novel of the year' Sunday Express on The SeekerCaptain Damian Seeker has gone north. Charged with preparing the way for the rule of the major-generals, he is now under the command of Colonel Robert Lilburne at York... -
![A Deadly Affair by Carla Simpson]()
A Deadly Affair by Carla Simpson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLondon 1889 — Murder, mystery, and two people in a most unlikely partnership.She's an unconventional lady who has traveled the world, practices the art of self defense most excellently, and has an interesting tattoo in, ahem... a very unusual place...Categorized as:
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![An Extravagant Death by Charles Finch, James Langton]()
An Extravagant Death by Charles Finch, James Langton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn what promises to be a breakout in Charles Finch's bestselling series, 'AN EXTRAVAGANT DEATH' finds Sir Charles Lenox traveling to Gilded Age Newport and New York to investigate the death of a beautiful socialite.Running Time => 8hrs. and 30mins...Categorized as:
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![A Corruption of Blood by Ambrose Parry]()
A Corruption of Blood by Ambrose Parry
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA Raven and Fisher Book 3Edinburgh, 1850. This city will bleed you dry.Sarah Fisher is keeping a safe distance from her old flame Dr Will Raven. Having long worked at the side of Dr James Simpson, she has set her sights on learning to practise medicine herself. A notion everyone seems intent on dissuading her from...Categorized as:
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![The Bowes Inheritance by Pam Lecky]()
The Bowes Inheritance by Pam Lecky
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEngland, 1867- A Game of Chance and a Property Lost Who could have known what the consequences would be? Fifteen years later, Louisa Campbell, living in genteel poverty in Dublin, Ireland, is more than surprised to learn that she is the new owner of Bowes Farm...Categorized as:
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![Murder Most Holy by Paul Doherty, P. Harding]()
Murder Most Holy by Paul Doherty, P. Harding
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the early summer of 1379 in London, Sir John Cranston, Coroner of the city, is trapped into a wager with Signior Gian Galeazzo, Lord of Cremona, who challenges him to resolve a certain murder mystery within two weeks. Men have been found dead in the scarlet chamber of one of Cremona's manors... -
![Her Noble Captive by Emily Windsor]()
Her Noble Captive by Emily Windsor
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlternate cover edition of ASIN B06X9XD55WThat bitter winter of 1813…Her… Miss Rosalind Trewent. Irrepressibly vivid. Improperly spoken. Burdened by secrets. Refuses to marry.Noble… Major Lucas Mainwaring. Excessively grouchy. Reluctant earl. Self-admitted wreck. Can never marry... -
![Fierce Poison: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel by Will Thomas]()
Fierce Poison: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel by Will Thomas
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLondon, 1893, there is poisoner loose in the city, with deaths piling up, and private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn are apparently his latest target in Fierce Poison, the next installment in Will Thomas's acclaimed historical mystery series...Categorized as:
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The Loch of the Dead by Oscar de Muriel
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA CASE FOR FREY & McGRAY The Scottish Highlands, 1889. When a young heir receives a sinister death threat, Inspectors Frey and 'Nine-Nails' McGray answer a desperate plea to offer him protection.The detectives travel north to the remote and misty Loch Maree, site of an ancient burial ground. They must stay with the mysterious Koloman family - any one of whom might be a suspect... -
![No Stone Unturned by Pam Lecky]()
No Stone Unturned by Pam Lecky
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA suspicious death, stolen gems and an unclaimed who will be the victor in a deadly game of cat and mouse? London October 1886 : Trapped in a troubled marriage, Lucy Lawrence is ripe for an adventure. But when she meets the enigmatic Phineas Stone, over the body of her husband in the mortuary, her world begins to fall apart... -
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![From the Ashes by Sabrina Flynn]()
From the Ashes by Sabrina Flynn
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAshes to ashes; dust to dust. Unfortunately, memories aren’t so easily buried.San Francisco, 1900. Atticus Riot returns home with death on his heels and grief in his heart. After twenty years of roaming the Barbary Coast, the gambler-turned detective is about to toss the game for good. But man plans and God laughs: the case of a missing heiress draws him in its wake... -
![The Bookseller of Inverness by S.G. MacLean]()
The Bookseller of Inverness by S.G. MacLean
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally slashed, he survived only by pretending to be dead as the Redcoats patrolled the corpses of his Jacobite comrades.Six years later, with the clan chiefs routed and the Highlands subsumed into the British state, Iain lives a quiet life, working as a bookseller in Inverness...Categorized as:
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![The Piccadilly Pickpocket by Karen Charlton]()
The Piccadilly Pickpocket by Karen Charlton
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is an alternate cover edition for ASIN: B00Y3KKHGA There’s no honour among thieves. When a robbery in the crowded streets of Piccadilly takes an unusual twist, Constable Woods is blamed and a royal scandal threatens to erupt. Detective Stephen Lavender must act quickly to track down the rogues, clear his friend’s name and avert the crisis... -
![The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore]()
The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsNew York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history--and a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win...Categorized as:
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![Just a Little Seduction by Merry Farmer]()
Just a Little Seduction by Merry Farmer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDavid Wirth has made it his life’s work to fight for the rights of those who cannot defend themselves and to navigate England’s choppy legal waters for fellow members of The Brotherhood. Tracking down the three villainous noblemen, including a powerful duke, who have masterminded a child kidnapping ring promises to be the pinnacle of his career seeking justice for the helpless... -
![The Dance of the Serpents by Oscar de Muriel]()
The Dance of the Serpents by Oscar de Muriel
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings'Properly creepy and Gothic' IAN RANKIN on the Frey & McGray mysteries... December, 1889. There have been many bad days in Edinburgh police's secret subdivision 'The Commission for the Elucidation of Unsolved Cases Presumably Related to the Odd and Ghostly'. But today is surely the worst... -
![A Lady in Disguise by Sandra Byrd]()
A Lady in Disguise by Sandra Byrd
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this intriguing novel of romance, mystery, and clever disguise set in Victorian England, a young woman investigates the murder of her own father. After the mysterious death of her father, Miss Gillian Young takes a new job as the principal costume designer at the renowned Drury Lane Theatre Royal... -
![Murder in Canton by Robert van Gulik]()
Murder in Canton by Robert van Gulik
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA.D. 681Murder In Canton takes place in 680 A.D. Judge Dee, recently promoted to Lord Chief Justice, is sent incognito to Canton to investigate the disappearance of a court censor... -
![The Darker Arts by Oscar de Muriel]()
The Darker Arts by Oscar de Muriel
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMadame Katerina, Detective 'Nine Nails' McGray's most trusted clairvoyant, hosts a séance for three of Edinburgh's wealthiest families.The following morning everyone is found dead, with Madame Katerina being the only survivor. When questioned she alleges a tormented spirit killed the families for revenge... -
![Evil Unveiled by Robert McCammon]()
Evil Unveiled by Robert McCammon
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"New York Times" bestselling author Robert McCammon continues his triumphant return with the conclusion of an epic tale of suspense that reinstates him as one of the great storytellers of our time....The Carolinas, 1699: After hearing damning testimony from the townspeople of Fount Royal, magistrate Isaac Woodward sentences the accused witch, Rachel Howarth, to death by burning... -
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![The Camden Spiritualist by Emily Organ]()
The Camden Spiritualist by Emily Organ
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA woman shot dead on her doorstep. A killer who disappears into the fog.News reporter Penny doesn’t believe in spirits, so she’s unimpressed with the young medium who claims to communicate with the dead. Is it harmless entertainment or something more sinister?When the spiritualist’s performance is interrupted by a protestor, Penny finds an ally. Two days later, her new friend is dead...Categorized as:
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![Gone Before Christmas by Charles Finch]()
Gone Before Christmas by Charles Finch
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn Gone Before Christmas, this delightfully absorbing short Christmas story in the bestselling Charles Lenox mystery series, Lenox must find a soldier who ran into a cloakroom for his hat—and never returned.Charles Lenox’s holiday preparations are interrupted when an officer vanishes at Charing Cross Station...Categorized as:
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![Dead Man's Blues by Ray Celestin]()
Dead Man's Blues by Ray Celestin
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsChicago, 1928. In the stifling summer heat three disturbing events take place. A clique of city leaders is poisoned in a fancy hotel. A white gangster is found mutilated in an alleyway in the Blackbelt. And a famous heiress vanishes without a trace.Pinkerton detectives Michael Talbot and Ida Davis are hired to find the missing heiress by the girl's troubled mother... -
![Fatal Enquiry by Will Thomas, Antony Ferguson]()
Fatal Enquiry by Will Thomas, Antony Ferguson
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBrimming with wit, atmosphere, and unforgettable characters, FATAL ENQUIRY reintroduces private enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewellyn, and their unforgettable world of Victorian London...Categorized as:
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![A Bucket of Ashes by P.B. Ryan]()
A Bucket of Ashes by P.B. Ryan
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“As always, the author excels at setting the scene, evoking the time and place by use of the day-to-day details as well as historical events. The resolution of the central mystery is almost secondary to the revelations about Nell’s past and the way the author ties up all the loose ends of her present situation. Longtime readers will enjoy this aspect immensely; I know I did... -
![Special Assignments by Boris Akunin, Boris Akunin]()
Special Assignments by Boris Akunin, Boris Akunin
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Special Assignments, Erast Fandorin, nineteenth-century Russia's suavest sleuth, faces two formidable new foes: One steals outrageous sums of money, the other takes lives. The Jack of Spades is a civilized swindler who has conned thousands of rubles from Moscow's residents including Fandorin's own boss, Prince Dolgorukoi...Categorized as:
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![The Last Moriarty by Charles Veley]()
The Last Moriarty by Charles Veley
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA lovely young American actress from the D'Oyly Carte Opera Troupe comes to 221B Baker Street on a cold November morning, desperately seeking assistance from Sherlock Holmes. Inexplicably, Holmes agrees to help, even though the Prime Minister of England and his cabinet need Holmes to solve a murder case that could threaten a high-stakes meeting with John D. Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan... -
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Surgeons’ Hall by E.S. Thomson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat secret grips Corvus Hall?Visiting the Great Exhibition to view the wax anatomical models of the famous but reclusive Dr Silas Strangeway, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain find a severed hand, perfectly dissected and laid out amongst the exhibits... -
![The House at Helygen by Victoria Hawthorne]()
The House at Helygen by Victoria Hawthorne
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings'DARK, DISTURBING AND UTTERLY COMPELLING' LIZ FENWICKAn atmospheric historical suspense novel rich with familial secrets. The House at Helygen is a twisted tale of dark pasts, murderous presents and uncertain futures.2019 When Henry Fox is found dead in his ancestral home in Cornwall, the police rule it a suicide, but his pregnant wife, Josie, believes it was murder... -
![Violet Vanquishes a Villain by M. Louisa Locke]()
Violet Vanquishes a Villain by M. Louisa Locke
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this novella, Annie and Nate Dawson, the amateur sleuths from M. Louisa Locke's cozy Victorian San Francisco Mystery series, are visiting Nate's family at their ranch near San Jose, California. What was supposed to be a pleasant romantic interlude for the two of them, plus a chance for Annie to get to know Nate's family better, turns serious when a crime is uncovered...Categorized as:
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![What You Deserve by Adele Clee]()
What You Deserve by Adele Clee
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLove — Betrayal — A wicked deception. A gentleman desperate to numb the pain of the past. Tristan Wells lost everything the day he discovered love was nothing more than a bitter lie. Now, having spent five years working for the Crown in France, his brother’s death forces him to return to London... -
![Death and the Harlot by Georgina Clarke]()
Death and the Harlot by Georgina Clarke
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA gripping historical crime debut from an exciting new voice. ‘It’s strange, the way fortune deals her hand.’ The year is 1759 and London is shrouded in a cloak of fear. With the constables at the mercy of highwaymen, it’s a perilous time to work the already dangerous streets of Soho...Categorized as:
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![Stranger at Wildings by Madeleine Brent]()
Stranger at Wildings by Madeleine Brent
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHere is a tale of charm and adventure-set in Europe around the turn of the century-whose colorful action ranges from a touring circus in Hungary to the fox-hunting society of the English countryside to the elegant circles of wealth and fashion in London...Categorized as:
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![Encounters of Sherlock Holmes by George Mann, Mark Hodder]()
Encounters of Sherlock Holmes by George Mann, Mark Hodder
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA brand-new collection of Sherlock Holmes stories from a variety of exciting voices in modern horror and steampunk, including James Lovegrove, Justin Richards, Paul Magrs, Guy Adams and Mark Hodder. Edited by respected anthologist George Mann, and including a story by Mann himself...Categorized as:
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![Railway to the Grave by Edward Marston]()
Railway to the Grave by Edward Marston
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTragedy strikes close to the Detective Department when an old army friend of Superintendent Tallis walks to meet a speeding train head on. The suicide, prompted by the disappearance of the man s wife, has shocked the local community and leaves plenty for Inspector Robert Colbeck, the Railway Detective, to uncover... -
![The Duke Redemption by Grace Callaway]()
The Duke Redemption by Grace Callaway
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA gentleman in search of redemption finds a lady looking for sin. Will honor or temptation prevail? Find out in this sensual and heart-melting take on Beauty and the Beast… The Beast Once London’s reigning debutante, Lady Beatrice Wodehouse is poised for a life of happiness when an accident shatters her dreams...Categorized as:
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![The Journey by Annelie Wendeberg]()
The Journey by Annelie Wendeberg
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook 4 in the award-winning Anna Kronberg series. New and revised edition. "Kronberg is a wonderful character, prickly, independent, analytical, intelligent..." A Bibliophile's Reverie What would you do if your darkest nightmare came true? For Anna Kronberg, time is running out...Categorized as:
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![The Leper's Return by Michael Jecks]()
The Leper's Return by Michael Jecks
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen a local goldsmith, Godfrey of Harwood, is found brutally murdered in his home, Furnshill and Puttock are called on to investigate. But when rumors begin spreading that patients from a local leper hospital might have been involved in Godfrey's murder, a series of vicious attacks on the unfortunate victims ensues, culminating in a disastrous fire at the hospital... -
![The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes: The Adventures of the Great Detective in India and Tibet by Jamyang Norbu]()
The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes: The Adventures of the Great Detective in India and Tibet by Jamyang Norbu
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn 1891, the British public was horrified to learn that Sherlock Holmes had perished in a deadly struggle with the archcriminal Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. Then, to its amazement, he reappeared two years later, informing a stunned Watson, 'I traveled for two years in Tibet, therefore, and amused myself by visiting Lhasa...Categorized as:
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![Anatomy of Evil by Will Thomas, Antony Ferguson]()
Anatomy of Evil by Will Thomas, Antony Ferguson
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn London of 1888, Private Enquiry Agent Cyrus Barker takes on his biggest case ever—the attempt to find and stop the killer terrorizing Whitechapel: Jack the RipperCyrus Barker is undoubtedly England’s premiere private enquiry agent... -
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![Dark Tide Rising by Anne Perry]()
Dark Tide Rising by Anne Perry
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen a ransom exchange turns deadly in the latest mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry, Commander William Monk faces an unthinkable possibility: betrayal by his own men.Local businessman Harry Exeter doesn't want the aid of the Thames River Police in tracking down the men who kidnapped his wife, Kate... -
![Old Scores by Will Thomas]()
Old Scores by Will Thomas
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn 1890, the first Japanese diplomatic delegation arrives in London to open an embassy. Cyrus Barker, private enquiry agent and occasional agent for the Foreign Service Office, is enlisted to display his personal Japanese garden to the visiting dignitaries...Categorized as:
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![Traitor by Rory Clements]()
Traitor by Rory Clements
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Elizabethan navy has a secret weapon: an optical instrument so powerful it gives England unassailable superiority at sea. Spain will stop at nothing to steal it and seize the two men who understand its secrets - its operative William Ivory, known as the 'Queen's Eye', and its inventor, the maverick magician Dr Dee...Categorized as:
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![Mrs Hudson and The Christmas Canary by Martin Davies]()
Mrs Hudson and The Christmas Canary by Martin Davies
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDecember in London, and Maximilian Cortado, the world famous violinist, has disappeared, the only clue being the unexpected delivery to his townhouse of a basket containing a live hen.When it emerges that a number of other notable members of society have been receiving similarly unexplained fowl, the deliveries begin to appear more sinister...Categorized as:
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Inspector of the Dead by David Morrell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLEGENDARY THRILLER WRITER DAVID MORRELL TRANSPORTS READERS TO THE FOGBOUND STREETS OF LONDON, WHERE A KILLER PLOTS TO ASSASSINATE QUEEN VICTORIA.The year is 1855. The Crimean War is raging. The incompetence of British commanders causes the fall of the English government. The Empire teeters...Categorized as:
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![The Whitechapel Conspiracy by Anne Perry]()
The Whitechapel Conspiracy by Anne Perry
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 1892, the grisly murders of Whitechapel prostitutes four years earlier by a killer dubbed Jack the Ripper remain a terrifying enigma. And in a packed Old Bailey courtroom, Superintendent Thomas Pitt’s testimony causes distinguished soldier John Adinett to be sentenced to hang for the inexplicable murder of a friend...Categorized as:
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