The Painswick Line

{{Short description|1951 novel}}

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| author = Henry Cecil

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

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| genre = Comedy crime

| publisher = Chapman and Hall

| release_date = 1951

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| media_type = Print

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The Painswick Line is a 1951 comedy crime novel by the British writer Henry Cecil.Breen p.25 It was his debut novel and introduced the character of the drunken solicitor Mr. Tewkesbury who recurred in many of his stories.Herbert p.116