Salt Is Leaving

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Salt Is Leaving
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First edition (UK)
Author J. B. Priestley
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreMystery
Publisher Pan Books (UK)
Harper & Row (US)
Publication date
1966
Media typePrint

Salt Is Leaving is a 1966 mystery novel by the British writer J.B. Priestley. [1] Doctor Salt begins to investigate when one of his patients Noreen Wilks goes missing for three weeks. Despite a lack of interest from the police, he becomes convinced that she has in fact been murdered.

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  1. Klein p.318

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