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Helen Vardon's confession
R. Austin FreemanHelen Vardon's confession is a literary work by R. Austin Freeman. Its themes and subject matter include Artists and Detective and mystery stories. Together, these subjects provide the book with its main literary, historical, social, or intellectual context.
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