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The Murder at World’s End

by Ross Montgomery (Goodreads Author)

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Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada

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What do a couple of hundred thousand dead matter! We’re rich!’

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“Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young.”
― John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

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“A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge.”
― Friedrich Dürrenmatt

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“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”
― Marcel Proust

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“A story is not finished, until it has taken the worst turn”
― Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The Physicists

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“Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.”
― Alasdair Gray

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