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ited child. Yet whenever an adult ma
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job to ferret out the cause of Bendinj
tense, Levin is a detective.
tective novel. Levin is not given cent
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ase of Lucy Bending " . the novel focus
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big discovery," it is no surprise
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to outguess Levin not because
was unavailable to Levin but becai
the obvious.
also damage the passage of time in t
ons wiui trending or ner pa renis
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a unusual character (in "The Tenth
,le detective was less than five feet tall)
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aging senator confined to his whee
formation for the pleasures of a p
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the characters who inhabit "The Cas
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no character is truly evil, none of the <
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gives no depth to any one characte
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awkward and unintentionally hilar
s a Bending's need for women is describe
m "Ronald Bending needed women
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/in during. Bending was incapable of
timents; he only knew that he was
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the driver's seat of his silve
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