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150:(1970). The adventures of Dr Richard Wormset, Physician and Number Seventeen of Leyden in the Knotte (the formidable secret service of His Majesty King James II), as he sails in pursuit of his betrothed, who has been transported to the Indies for complicity in the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion.
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