All the June Saturday afternoon Sam Pollit's children were on the lookout for him as they skated round the dirt sidewalks and seamed old asphalt of R Street and Reservoir Road that bounded the deep-grassed acres of Tohoga House, their home.
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A lone fisherman up early looking for sea trout found the first body.
We came to Macun when I was four, to a rectangle of rippled metal sheets on stilts hovering in the middle of a circle of red dirt.
Ray Bannister started to build the guillotine the day Jerry Renault returned to Monument.
Thanatos, der alles wusste, stieg in Erwartung des Kommenden die Niederenslinger Hügel hinauf zum Plateau, suchte einen Baumstrunk, setzte sich und wartete. Er trug einen schwarzen Aktenkoffer bei sich, der alle Geduld der Welt enthielt.
This morning, my mother didn't get out of bed.
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Early spring, yes. It's one of those cautiously hopeful days at the beginning of April, after the clocks have made their great leap forward but before the weather or the more suspicious trees have quite had the courage to follow them, and Kate and I are traveling north in a car crammed with food and books and old saucepans and spare pieces of furniture.
As the ordinary violence of dawn sweeps across the lower Coromandel coast, a sprawling village comes into view.
It was shaping up as a beautiful morning. The last thing I wanted to hear about was murder.
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From the air Anguilla looked narrow, flat, and scrubby, but that was only part of the picture.
Jerrie Cobb reached down and pulled the heavy layers of arctic clothing over her navy blue linen dress.
Stavia saw herself as in a picture, from the outside, a darkly cloaked figure moving along a cobbled street, the stones sheened with a soft, early spring rain.
In the midst of a thick forest, there was a castle that gave shelter to all travelers overtaken by night on their journey: lords and ladies, royalty and their retinue, humble wayfarers.
Unfortunately, I am only myself.
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When you've been struck by lightning as many times as I have, you start to expect the worst pretty much all the time.
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I might be the villain of this story.
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I AM A COWARD.
On the same day, two murders.
3 years, 1 month, 1 week, and 6 days since I'd seen daylight.
It was Wang Lung's marriage day.
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Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton.
There is a delicate-looking plant native to North America called bleeding heart.
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