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3 2 y separately published work icon Death's Mannikins : Being a Sober Account of Certain Diabolical Happenings Not Untinged with the Odour of Brimstone Which Befell a Respectable Family Living at Exmoor in This Present Year Death Plays with Dolls Max Afford , ( trans. Yoshiaki Shimojima with title 魔法人形 世界 ) Tokyo : Kokusyo kankokai , 2003 Z814316 1937 single work novel detective horror thriller

'Freelance sleuth Jeffery Blackburn is called in by friend Rollo Morgan when there is a strange death at Rochester House, mansion home of occult scholar Cornelius Rochester. Blackburn learns of a set of mannikins modelled on the occupants of the house. Before long, it becomes clear that whoever receives 'their' mannikin will certainly die. Everyone in the house is a suspect.'

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7 1 y separately published work icon Hamlet, Revenge! : A Story in Four Parts Michael Innes , ( trans. Takiguti Tatuya with title Hamuretto hukusyu seyo ) Tokyo : Kokusyo kankokai , 1997 Z1096972 1937 single work novel detective crime
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