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I've written to customer service requesting a fixed file or a refund. We'll see what they say.
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Fictionwise have still to get back to me about
Next of Kin.
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Meantime, I'm going on to the next Agatha Christie book, The Hound of Death. Her 17th book |
The Hound of Death is a collection of short stories without any of her main characters. Most of the stories involve the supernatural. The weird thing is that in some of the stories the supernatural is real and in some it is not.
This is most confusing. It's as if the puzzle is to work out into which category each story falls. Unfortunately this is, of course, impossible.
I find the real supernatural stories rather unsatisfactory. It's the ones where there's nothing really supernatural going on that are most satisfying. It's rather like the
The Mysterious Mr. Quin in that respect.
There is one absolute gem in here. "The Witness for the Prosecution", which was made into a equally splendid film (with a tiny change to the ending).
Next up:
The Great Chain of Being and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution by Brian Stableford. Another of my recent fictionwise purchases.