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AN EDDY OF MISPLACED PASSIONS, or the paradoxical death of Mr. James Camden

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Time 1h 18m

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Mr. Alderton gets urgently summoned to Mr. Beckwith's house, where a party has been interrupted by a murder: Mr. James Camden lays crushed between a table and a bookshelf in the study, after a heated argument was moved from the party to the more private room. The detective is not quite happy to work at nighttime, but at least there's already a main suspect, so it should be an easy solve, right?All Rights Reserved

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