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- 1 2 Bright, Brittain (2015). Beyond the Scene of the Crime: Investigating Place in Golden Age Detective Fiction. PhD thesis (Goldsmiths, University of London). pp. 34, 127, 142.
- ↑ "BBC Home Service Basic - 28 September 1940 - BBC Genome".
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