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This is another case where I picked up a book 20+ years ago, stuck it on the shelf, and am just getting around to reading it now. Back then I was much less discriminating about what I shelved, and I can only think that the Auckland, New Zealand setting caught my eye, along with the book's billing as a crime thriller. In a kind of trite nod to Sunset Boulevard, the book opens with protagonist Ellerslie Penrose dead on the pavement after a long fall from the top of a hotel, with him then narrating
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