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    Hagar of the Pawn-Shop
    Hagar of the Pawn-Shop
    Hagar of the Pawn-Shop
    Audiobook8 hours

    Hagar of the Pawn-Shop

    Written by Fergus Hume

    Narrated by Grant Hurlock

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    Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge with her uncle Jacob, a miserly London pawnbroker. He dies after teaching Hagar the business, and she takes over running the popshop till the legitimate heir can be traced. In the odd assortment of objects that pass across her counter, Hagar uncovers one mystery after another. Some items are linked to actual crimes, others to iniquitous acts of human deceit and betrayal. Whether investigating independently or alongside the police, Hagar combines her native shrewdness with woman's intuition to help untangle the webs of wickedness she encounters, that justice might prevail in the end. Though the individual mysteries in Hagar of the Pawn-shop may be read separately, they are so arranged by Fergus Hume as to form a linked set, with characters from earlier stories popping up again later on, one as Hagar's love interest and another as her nemesis. - Summary by Grant Hurlock
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Author

    Fergus Hume

    Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was an English writer and critic, best known for his innovation in the biographical genre. After starting his career by writing reviews and critical articles for periodicals, Strachey reached his first great success and crowning achievement with the publication of Eminent Victorians, which defied the conventional standards of biographical work. Strachey was a founding member of the Bloomsburg Group, a club of English artists, writers, intellectuals and philosophers. Growing very close to some of the members, Strachey participated in an open three-way relationship with Dora Carrington, a painter, and Ralph Partridge. Stachey published a total of fourteen major works, eight of which were publish posthumously.

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    • 5/5
      The heroine was to be greatly admired...she was smart, assertive, ran a business, drove a hard bargain and never backed down..a delight, a real delight! All the characters, the plots (and subplots), the plans and actions taken were as those in “real life”.

      I thoroughly enjoyed this book and outdoors unhesitatingly recommend it to others, with no doubt they would feel the same..

      I look forward to reading more books by this author.



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    • 4/5
      A little different but not bad mostly I enjoyed it .