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Title: Special Duties

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Title: Special Duties Title Record # 2256446
Author: Graham Greene
Date: 1954-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: "Millionaire Mr Ferraro has for three years employed a mousy secretary to go to Catholic churches in London and beyond to pray for him and do penances. He keeps an account book in which he tallies up the number of days remission her work is getting him off Purgatory. A chance check-up reveals the secretary has in fact done none of them but taken the money and bunked off with her boyfriend." (Books & Boots)
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Twenty-One Stories 1973-00-00 Graham Greene Penguin Books 0-14-003093-X
£0.30?£: UK pound
197
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
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