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MediaDB / «Shadow of the Past" by Earl Stanley Gardner: download fb2, read online
About the book: 1955 / A cozy roadside restaurant breathed peace and prosperity. All in greenery, surrounded on all sides by gravel, it was located in a very convenient place - at the junction of two busy highways. Eight kilometers away, a cloudy cloud of smog hung over the city, but here the air was clean and crystal clear. George Ollie slid down from his stool by the cash register and walked over to the window. His face expressed both physical well-being and mental balance. In seven imperceptibly flashing years, he achieved amazing success in life - he went from being a cook in front of a huge oven blazing with heat in the back half of the house to the owner of a thriving establishment. And this was all the more impressive because before that he had suffered complete collapse twice... although, for obvious reasons, no one in the area knew about it. And even more so, it would never have occurred to anyone to imagine him as a participant in a daring robbery, during which his partner, having lost his composure, pulled the trigger...