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ISBN: 9781441718716
Genre - Main: Fiction
Genre - Specific: Modern
Duration: 720 mins
Length: Unabridged
Author: Robertson Davies
Performer 1: Frederick Davidson
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The first book in the acclaimed Cornish Trilogy. “[A] darkly funny scuttle through academe’s more covert passageway . . . saucy stuff indeed.”—Kirkus Reviews Davies weaves together the destinies of this remarkable cast of characters, creating a wise and witty portrait of love, murder, and scholarship at a modern...

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The story is set in motion by the death of eccentric art patron and collector Francis Cornish. Hollier, McVarish, and Darcourt are the executors of Cornish’s complicated will, which includes material that Hollier wants for his studies.

The deceased’s nephew, Arthur Cornish, stands to inherit the fortune.

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