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    Crime Doesn't Pay: Wordsworth Shorts, #29
    Crime Doesn't Pay: Wordsworth Shorts, #29
    Crime Doesn't Pay: Wordsworth Shorts, #29
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    Crime Doesn't Pay: Wordsworth Shorts, #29

    By Diane Wordsworth

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    Max Fleming had a problem and he knew just how to fix it. The trouble is, things don't always go quite as planned.

     

    This is a SHORT STORY.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBaggins Bottom Books
    Release dateSep 19, 2022
    ISBN9798215947920
    Crime Doesn't Pay: Wordsworth Shorts, #29
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    Diane Wordsworth

    Diane Wordsworth was born and bred in Solihull in the West Midlands when it was still Warwickshire. She started to write for magazines in 1985 and became a full-time freelance photojournalist in 1996. In 1998 she became sub-editor for several education trade magazines and started to edit classroom resources, textbooks and non-fiction books. In 2004 Diane moved from the Midlands to South Yorkshire where she edited an in-house magazine for an international steel company for six years. She still edits and writes on a freelance basis.

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