Mystery and Crime Rees, Arthur J: The Hand in the Dark. v1. 23 Jun 2014

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Arthur John Rees (1872–1942), was an Australian mystery writer.

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The moat-house was not so old as English country-houses go, but it had aged quickly because of its past. There was a weird and bloody history attached to the place: an historical record of murders and stabbings and quarrels dating back to Saxon days, when a castle had stood on the spot, and every inch of the flat land had been drenched in the blood of serfs fighting under a Saxon tyrant against a Norman tyrant for the sacred catchword of Liberty

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