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This edition first published in 1981 by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

The Military Orchid (1948), A Mine of Serpents (1949) and The Goose Cathedral (1950)

were first published by The Bodley Head.

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Copyright © Jocelyn Brooke, 1948, 1949, 1950

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