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The Daughter of Anderson Crow: read and explore
The story is set in the fictional town of Tinkletown and follows its notable resident,…
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- Author
- George Barr McCutcheon
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- novel
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Anderson Crow, Detective He was imposing, even in his pensiveness. There was no denying the fact that he was an important personage in Tinkletown, and to the residents of Tinkletown that meant a great deal, for was not their village a perpetual monument to the American Revolution? Even the most generalising of historians were compelled to devote at least a paragraph to the battle of Tinkletown, while some of the more enlightened gave a whole page and a picture of …
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