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Daily Telegraph Abducted beaten hidden in an attic a young woman stages an audacious escape.
But is her story everything she claims it to be?Fifteen-year-old Betty Kane can recall every
detail of the room where she says she was held at the country house known as The Franchise -
even the crack in its round window. But her alleged kidnappers a quiet-living mother and
daughter claim they have never seen her before. Somebody has to be lying. But who? As the case
sparks a media frenzy it is up to unassuming village solicitor Robert Blair to find out.
