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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.
