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Ethan Canin • For Kings and Planets: A Novel


I was going downtown to kill a man who hadn’t done a damned thing to me, to kill an old guy whose only fault as far as I knew was throwing chewing gum wrappers in the street. I was going to kill him because I wanted money more than I wanted him to live and I was going to kill him filthily. Or maybe I wasn’t. Maybe he was going to kill me and go on
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them


With a stand-alone crime, you have no way of knowing what’s pure chance and what’s a clue,