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MacGuffin

The Victim

September 10, 2025 by Jeri Westerson

I was listening to mystery author Laura Lippman on the radio a long while back and she said something that was rather an epiphany for me. She writes bestselling crime novels and I guess I would consider them the “literary” kind in the same sense that a “literary novel” is one that appeals to a … Read more

Categories Article Tags crime victims, Laura Lippman, MacGuffin, Maltese Falcon, Mystery genre 1 Comment

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