A Slice of an Afterlife
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After the gruesome demise of the barber and the baker, the jaded partners are condemned to spend their afterlives together in the number 186 of Fleet Street.
When an old acquaintance purchases their house and turns their existences upside down, will they be able to put their resentment aside and work together? And what will that mean for their maimed relationship?
They might be dead, but their story is far from over
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