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Duchess Maria’s ability to appear in the library at Maidstone was always a mystery. Was she secretly a magician? In cahoots with Harris, who deliberately detained our heroes while she scurried down a servants’ passage? A hologram?
Suddenly this makes it all clear.
Arthur Conan Doyle, 1913 -very much the picture of the Edwardian gent with straw boater and tie. Oh and that moustache.
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