6 JULY 1985, page 34

The Letter

I read your letter: then I took a knife and went into the garden. There was much that needed doing: everything in leaf and flower, grossly intertwined; each branch a mess of......

Sherlock Holmes In Action

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A Horse-doctor In Afghanistan

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