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Fountain inn

by Victor Canning

This is a mixture of simple love story and detective story. The social observation and love story elements are rather good. The crime and detection are totally implausible. The reviewer in The Times of 20 May 1939 characterises this as a "reluctance to cause pain". Fountain Inn, somewhere among the Inns of Court, houses several enterprises, including a group of architects for which George Crane works, the Society for Progresive Rehabilitation run by the sinister Mr. Tomms, General Factotums run by Ben and Helen Brown, and W. Rage who employs Grace Kirkstall as typist. When the story...

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