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- Eight detectives / by Pavesi, Alex,author.;
All murder mysteries follow a simple set of rules. Grant McAllister, an eccentric but brilliant professor of mathematics, once sat down and worked them all out and wrote a set of seven stories to demonstrate. Soon after, Grant disappeared to live on an isolated Mediterranean island. No-one knows why he left. He never came home. Thirty years later, Julia Hart, a smart, ambitious young editor, knocks on his door. Grant's work is being republished, and together the two of them must revisit those old stories. But as she reads the sharp, twisting tales, Julia is unsettled to realise that there are things that don't make sense -- deliberate inconsistencies which Grant is unable -- or unwilling -- to explain. Might they be a trail of clues? And if so, do they lead towards the topic on which Grant is most evasive -- the truth about what happened thirty years before? If Julia wants answers, she must triumph in a battle of wits with a dangerously clever adversary. But she must tread carefully -- she knows there's a mystery, but she doesn't yet realise there's already been a murder ...- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; College teachers; Murder;
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- Ink Ribbon Red. by Pavesi, Alex.;
In Alex Pavesi's 'Ink Ribbon Red', a group of friends gather in a country house for a birthday party. At their hosts request, they each write a short mystery. They draw names from a hat: in each story, one of the group is the killer, and another the victim. Of course, when given such a task, its only natural to use what you know. Secrets. Grudges. Illicit love. Its just that once you put it in a story, the secret is out. Oh, and just one more thing: this is a story that ends with a murder. From the author of 'Eight Detectives' (a RADD pick).Library Bound Incorporated- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; FICTION / Crime; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General; FICTION / Thrillers / Crime;
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