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England, 1932. The nation had just begun to recover from the wounds of the First World War when economic catastrophe struck with the Great Depression. ...

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Gordon Rutherford, a young writer, finds himself in a dangerous dilemma when he is the only witness to the accidental death of an acquaintance. Because ...