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The Cask

by Freeman Wills Crofts

A cask dropped during the unloading of a ship sets detectives on the trail of a murderer.

Themes: Fiction · Mystery

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A shipping manager's morning routine, a wine consignment already shadowed by past disputes, and a clerk who dreams of distant seas—the first page quietly plants a seed of unease beneath the surface of the ordinary.

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Part I: London

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