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I kicked off my shoes and jumped in. ...

‘Not yet. What do you know about it?’ ‘Nothing. Will they put her name on the news?’ ‘Probably, if her family has been informed. ...

I woke up at eight with a bad told, the result of sitting around in wet clothes. And I was anxious about Alicia. She had clearly ...

In the kitchen and the living room everything was tidy. And in Alicia’s study, her computers and electronic equipment were all i ...

competition yesterday. Is that correct?’ ‘So the FBI were following her! Why are you interested in her?’ He didn’t want to tell ...

of our old high school And the swimming teacher, Miss Finley, was a close friend of Alicia’s. ♦ The school is in a poor part of ...

when I was thirteen and he was six. I looked after him, and got him out of trouble. I still do.’ ‘But how does Smollensk have yo ...

the door saying it was closed. I turned out the lights and sat down in a dark corner, my gun in my hand. At last Tom came in thr ...

Slowly, Slowly in the Wind Patricia Highsmith Edward (Skip) Skipperton spent most of his life feeling angry. It was his nature. ...

something, he always did it immediately. There was work for him on the farm. He helped Andy to plant corn in the field behind th ...

Skip and Andy had made a scarecrow... ...

‘I’m trying to grow corn out there,’ Skip said. ‘I think you need a scarecrow in a cornfield.’ Young Peter was looking at a phot ...

and threw her arms round Skip’s neck. ‘Oh Father your so sweet! And you’re looking very well!’ Skip and Maggie went for a drive ...

was going to happen. His daughter was falling in love with Pete Frosby. Maggie, got home very late that night, after Skip had go ...

Maggie was not home by Sunday evening or Monday morning. Skip didn’t want to inform the police. On Tuesday there was a letter fr ...

Skip acted quickly. He had his heavy gun ready, and as soon as Frosby was inside the door he hit him on the head several times w ...

scarecrow from his upstairs bedroom window. He thought with pleasure of old Frosby’s body there, drying – slowly, slowly in the ...

No one came to Skip’s house that evening. There was a party at the Frosbys’ house – he could hear the music in the distance. He ...

‘Get off my property!’ ...

about the body in the scarecrows clothes. He had been away that weekend, after all. (^) ...