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and KGB Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vasin is searching for ghosts: for evidence of the long-rumoured existence of an American spy embedded at the highest echelons of Soviet power

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She's on the scent of a career-making story - a suspicious death amongst the cloistered elite world of Cambridge University

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The Three Taps Lyn Liao Crooked Lane Books FH Paperback 2025 and KGB Lieutenant Colonel AlexanderIn a gas lit inn in the countryside a man lies dead. The police, of course, investigate and so do Miles Bredon and his wife, in the interests of the Indescribable Insurance Company, with which the deceased man, Mr Mottram, had been heavily insured. The culprit is the three gas taps in Mr Mottram's room, and Miles hopes to prove that his death is suicide. Miles' old wartime colleague, Police Inspector Leyland, is convinced it's murder. And the