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16-year-old Margaret Larkin is found murdered: tied to her own bicycle and drown in the Styx River where her parents died in an accident ten years before. Her murderer, wealthy and insane Nathan Redfield, believes he got away with the crime.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and bleak.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Michael McDowell
- First published
- October 1980
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Toussaint Louverture, Avon, Collins
- Editions
- 4
- ISBN
- 9782381961699
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Michael McEachern McDowell was an American novelist and screenwriter described by author Stephen King as "the finest writer of paperback originals in America today". His most well-known work is the screenplay for the Tim Burton film Beetlejuice. Source: Wikipedia
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