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They say the ghost of the Black Abbot has been seen near the old abbey, and Cartwright the grocer claims to have seen it too. Meanwhile Harry Alford, eighteenth Earl of Chelford is engaged to Leslie Gine, sister of Arthur, solicitor and gambler with the family fortune. The Earl had originally asked his secretary Mary Wenner to be his bride, but his half brother Richard intervened to stop the marriage. Plotting revenge, Mary proposes she and Arthur marry. Her dowry, she insists, will be fifteen tons of Spanish gold - the missing Chelford treasure.
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I grandi maestri del giallo: L'abate nero, Edgar Wallace, Patrizia Tosi
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- Released
- 2004
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- Language
- Italian
- Authors
- Edgar Wallace, Patrizia Tosi
- Publisher
- Gruppo Editoriale Newton
- Released
- 2004
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 223
- ISBN10
- 8854101087
- ISBN13
- 9788854101081
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Thriller, Suspense, Horror, Detective Fiction, England, Detective, Great Britain, Adapted for Film, Mysterious, Mysteries, London, Investigation, Aristocracy, nobility, Lawyers, Treasures, Libraries
- First published
- 1926
- Original title
- The Black Abbot
- Rating
- 4.2 out of 5
- Description
- They say the ghost of the Black Abbot has been seen near the old abbey, and Cartwright the grocer claims to have seen it too. Meanwhile Harry Alford, eighteenth Earl of Chelford is engaged to Leslie Gine, sister of Arthur, solicitor and gambler with the family fortune. The Earl had originally asked his secretary Mary Wenner to be his bride, but his half brother Richard intervened to stop the marriage. Plotting revenge, Mary proposes she and Arthur marry. Her dowry, she insists, will be fifteen tons of Spanish gold - the missing Chelford treasure.