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Coming Up Trumps

Martin Davies P LAYING C ARDS IN C AIRO : M INT T EA , T ARNEEB AND T ALES OF THE C ITY by Hugh Miles Abacus, £10.99, pp. 279, ISBN 9780349119793 ✆ £8.79 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870......

At Her Most Disarming

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