This later part of his life
and deeply moving first book
which has rightly earned its reputation as the finest murder mystery ever written
we had the first air raid of the war on London
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The Little Stranger Papermac This later part of hisOne postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country physician, is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once impressive and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine. Its owners