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The Firm of Girdlestone

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

First published 1889

3.7(194)

John Girdlestone and his son Ezra struggle to preserve the appearance of prosperity around their old London trading house as its finances deteriorate. Their ward, Kate Harston, possesses the fortune that could save them, and the pressure to control her inheritance turns commercial dishonesty into confinement, deception and a plan to remove her altogether.
Kate’s position becomes increasingly dangerous while Tom Dimsdale and others try to discover what the Girdlestones are hiding. The novel combines romance with a crime story about financial fraud, greed and the respectable façade of Victorian commerce.

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