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    Thought You Were Dead
    Thought You Were Dead
    Thought You Were Dead
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    Thought You Were Dead

    By Nick Craine and Terry Griggs

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    Meet the Perfect Man...no, no, he’s not the hero of Thought You Were Dead. That would be Chellis Beith, literary researcher, slacker, reluctant detective, and a man bedeviled by every woman in his life. This is the most unconventional of murder mysteries, turning the genre completely on its head, by bludgeoning flat language and Puritanical sensibilities with evident glee.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBiblioasis
    Release dateApr 27, 2009
    ISBN9781897231760
    Thought You Were Dead
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    Nick Craine

    Nick Craine is a painter, animation artist, comix illustrator, and musician from Guelph, Ontario.

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