The Painswick Line is a 1951 comedycrime novel by the British writer Henry Cecil. It was his debut novel and introduced the character of the drunken solicitor Mr. Tewkesbury who recurred in many of his stories.
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Herbert, Rosemary. Whodunit?: A Who's Who in Crime & Mystery Writing. Oxford University Press, 2003.