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Title Murder & other acts of literature : twenty-four unforgettable and chilling stories by some of the world's best-loved, most celebrated writers / edited by Michele Slung.

Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.
1996.

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  808.83 M94    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  FIC MYS MUR    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F MURDER    Check Shelf
Edition First St. Martin's Press edition.
Description 345 pages ; 25 cm
Note Originally published: New York : Book-Of-the-Month Club, c1996.
"A Thomas Dunne book."
Contents Montraldo / John Cheever -- The hitch-hikers / Eudora Welty -- Success or failure / T.H. White -- By a person unknown / Naguib Mahfouz -- How did I get away with killing one of the biggest lawyers in the state? It was easy / Alice Walker -- The hotel of the idle moon / William Trevor -- Aaron Trow / Anthony Trollope -- The fat man / Isak Dinesen -- Mr. Loveday's little outing / Evelyn Waugh -- The Johore murders / Paul Theroux -- A journey / Edith
Wharton -- Miss Forbes's summer of happiness / Gabriel García Márquez -- The Macbeth murder mystery / James Thurber -- A double tragedy : an actor's story / Louisa May Alcott -- Un crime maternel / Fay Weldon -- Mary Postgate / Rudyard Kipling -- The walker / Patrick O'Brian -- Country lovers / Nadine Gordimer -- Monk / William Faulkner -- The widow and the parrot : a true story / Virginia Woolf -- My maiden brief / W.S. Gilbert -- An act of
vengeance / Isabel Allende -- In vino veritas / A.A. Milne -- The Portobello Road / Muriel Spark.
Subject Detective and mystery stories.
Added Author Slung, Michele B., 1947-
Added Title Murder and other acts of literature
ISBN 031216937X hardcover
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