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    Roped Part 1
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    Roped Part 1

    By Stephen Shypitka

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    Le chat la souris.
    Guess whose dying to dinner?
    Highly charged reboot inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s original for intellectual thrills two mates plot a murder then proceed to throw a dinner party with the body stuffed inside the trunk of their buffet table.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephen Shypitka
    Release dateApr 8, 2021
    ISBN9781005603847
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    Stephen Shypitka

    Stephen's eBooks have sold across 4 continents in Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Jamaica, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Switzerland the UK and the US. His online success has allowed his work to be noticed, read and savoured with his fiction for our times that turns heads, crosses genres and connects us all. Stephen was born in British Columbia, Canada an alumnus of USC film school in Los Angeles, he has taught the craft and loves to travel.

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      Roped Part 1 - Stephen Shypitka

      Roped

      By Stephen Shypitka

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      © 2021 Stephen Shypitka

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      Dedication

      For Farley Granger

      CONTENTS PART I

      Prologue

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      About The Author

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      Prologue

      It was a Southern California eatery in a dreary little suburb of Valley Village northwest of Los Angeles, out of the way, hidden, behind high wooden walls. Unpainted. And leaning, too close to the Ventura highway. Roared past. It possessed uncomfortable iron patio chairs, the kind that shifted, and rocked at your slightest move as if they were set upon the very Pacific. The metal tables were concealed in a white linen cloth trying to make them more upscale than

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