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The Curse of the Cheviot: What really happened to Harold Holt?

2016

Synopsis

It is the 1960s. Manfred is a seventeen-year-old teenager and a very unusual boy. Extremely bright, socially inept and with a passion for science and politics. Mannie is shocked to the core when he hears the news of the sudden inexplicable disappearance of Prime Minister Harold Holt on Christmas Day 1967. He does not believe the official reason for Holt's death and takes it upon himself to conduct his own investigation. He comes up with some startling and shocking discoveries.

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