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The trouble with real life is that you don't know whether you're the hero or just some nice chap who gets bumped off in chapter five to show what a rotter the villain is without anyone minding too much.
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It seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
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Sarah Caudwell
Born:
May 27, 1939
Died:
January 28, 2000
(aged 60)
Bio:
Sarah Caudwell was the pseudonym of Sarah Cockburn, a British barrister and writer of detective stories.
Known for:
Thus Was Adonis Murdered (1981)
The Shortest Way to Hades (1985)
The Sibyl in Her Grave (2000)
The Sirens Sang of Murder (1989)
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