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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime (Historical)]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Brody0571370977|title=Dying In The Wool: (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) Lock-Up|author=John Banville|rating=4.5
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|summary=Kate Shackleton had gained something of a reputation for solving mysteries and there were plenty of those at It's six months since the end of the Great War. She tracked down men who were then reunited with their families dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and even those who had no wish to be found Dr Quirke is now back in Dublin and were not reunitedliving (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, Phoebe. She had her own reasons The worst of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for doing what happened and this - it has made her feel the already strained relationship between them more positive about her own situationdifficult. Her husband Gerald was posted They''missing, presumed dead'' in re brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the last year body of the war and it was the one mystery she couldn't solvea young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, no matter how she triedis found in a lock-up. But her successes in other areas led to her At first professional investigation, it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than suicide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749941871</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Gallagher1529337968|title=The Bedlam DetectiveIn Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Authors like It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to claim start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that writing the NHS is hard workborn. In a way, that’s true – there are a really astonishing number of words She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in a book, their GP surgery and it’s often very difficult her job will be to wrangle them from your head into coherent sentences on a pagehelp patients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. At The hardest part of the same time, though, ''hard'' should not job will be to persuade people that the same as ''boring'services she offers really are free and that they don't have to do anything to qualify for them. It’s sad to come across authors who don’t enjoy Some of the process of writing, and it’s so easy to tell when you’re reading problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a piece problem of work by a writer who was actually having fun when they wrote ither own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091950120</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Edney Silvestre057136358X|title=If I Close My Eyes NowApril in Spain|author=John Banville|rating=45
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=12th April 1961Terry Tice was a hitman, the radio news is full although he didn't think of Yuri Gagarinhimself in those terms. He saw what he did as 's first earth orbit and two boys who'd had ambitions to be Tarzan, to be engineers, or medical scientists curing all diseases, suddenly had a new possibility: maybe they could be astronautsmatter of making things tidy''. I couldn'Brasilia had been inaugurated less than a year earliert resist the thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his job, but whichever of us got something which occurred to be president him when he was going in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance to transfer kill a lot of the capital back to Riolittle yellow fellows and had a fine old time''. We were twelve. He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw the benefits of taking up a different country. A different worldjob in Spain.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857521322</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sax RohmerB08Z8BMZ7H|title=Fu-Manchu - Daughter The Mystery of Fu-ManchuHealing|author=A P McGrath
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Fu Manchu is dead (or is We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and he?) 's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the populace. The remuneration isn't high but his evil genius lives on, in the form work gives the doctor a feeling of virtue and hones his daughter! New narrator Greville is sent to fetch Dr Petrie (narrator of skills: Solon ''wants'' the first three books) warriors to come to an archaeological dig where Grevillelive. It's chief Bartonquite a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see them, an old friend of Petriethey're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions's, lies deadmanes to make them look more impressive. (Or does he?) From there, The sagitarii are the archers and the beastiarii are the pair, along condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with Nayland Smith and Superintendent Weymouththe wild animals. Today, are plunged into a death-defying adventureit's the crocodiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686062</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=GK Chesterton1529337925|title=The Complete Father Brown StoriesMirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Having read many of It was the Father Brown short stories beforeAugust Bank Holiday weekend and, as so often happened, it was cold enough to have the fire lit and after really enjoying Bunty the recent screen version, I jumped at Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the chance to get hold sofa. The thought of this TV tie-work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in omnibusDundee. The little cleric who has such She was the publisher of a mild manner, but a keen knowledge magazine and had been told that the man running the Punch and Judy show in the local park had used copies of human evil, is one two of my favourite detectives, her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and it her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his show. Sandy Bissett's request was a pleasure simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be able cheaper than employing a solicitor to read this complete collection of his storiesdo the same job.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849906467</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara SheridanB08LKT7HSR|title=London Calling: a Mirabelle Bevan Murder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Mirabelle Bevan is an intriguing character. Warm, resourceful and extremely clever, she spent her war years In December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in intelligence (though not active duty) and then, as the war ended and her long-time lover died, she withdrew to cellar of the coast and Glass Bottle Public House. Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the dubious joys murder of running a debtElowed and his half-collection agency. Accidentally getting involved in solving a major crime with her vibrant young companion Vesta gets her noticedbrother, howeverDenzil Hammett, and it isnwhose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay't s long before she finds herself knee-deep search for her mother, who disappeared in another mysteryJune 1916 was over. A childhood friend flees London and an accusation of Now she's determined that the man responsible for her murder will be brought to beg Vesta and her employer to help him prove his innocence. This leads the intrepid pair into the world of smoky, music-filled basements and the black market, where they encounter criminals from all across the social spectrumjustice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972434</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jacqueline JacquesStephen Clarke|title=The Colours of CorruptionSpy Who Inspired Me
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|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Mary, an impoverished cleaner, This is witness to a murderspoof spy story, that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. Archie is one of But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the ladies' and who works for the first artists to work with secret service, but in the police and creates a picture planning side of things more than the man she says she sawactive service. Taken by her looks he persuades Mary to sit for Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a portraitfemale spy called Margaux, but and the man who buys pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in the portraitwould rather buy Mary herself...resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906784531</amazonuk>2952163855
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Taylor0349423083|title=The Scent of Deathand the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=It’s hard to explain why Andrew Taylor’s novels are so chilling. They’re ghost stories that often lack ghostsKate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, crime novels who lives in which the crime itself feels at a remove from the rest Woodhouse and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. She's been approached by William Lofthouse of the actionBarleycorn Brewery in Masham. But that’s really the secret of their power Something is going wrong with his business and he'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: while in most thrillershe's hoping that his nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, the bogeyman is will be back from a single entity, easy trip to Germany before long. James went to pinpoint see what the continental brewers were doing and therefore easy what changes Barleycorn might need to excise from the rest of the healthy fictional world, things are never so simple in the universes Taylor createsmake. What William is worried that James is frightening in an Andrew Taylor novel? Everythingperhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too'' much or is going to bring back a German bride but he'd like the business to be ship-shape before his nephew returns.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007213514</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Mann (Editor)0241433568|title=Encounters of Sherlock HolmesEight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Sherlock Holmes remains an enduring icon of English literature; perhaps as popular today as It's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in Spain. It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to have a rest and then he was back in the late 1800s, maybe even more so with the advent of TV wants to talk to Megan and film adaptations of Henry about something serious. Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his adventuresguests find that he's been murdered. Indeed, such is the lasting appeal of the character How can that since have happened? There's no one else in the death house, so one of Conan Doyle there have been literally hundreds of works published, picking up where them must be the original stories left offkiller. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781160031</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Pearl1473682401|title=The TechnologistsTurning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=The year is 1868 and Boston is under threat from an evil genius Those who seems to have were with us at the uncanny ability end of [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to manipulate matter itselfMallory Dunnoch. The city has already experienced two attacks; the chaos in the harbour when the navigation instruments went awry They're now married and Mallory is having twins. When they arrive no one can doubt the eerie spectacle in the commercial quarter when every item charms of glassLavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, including windowsEdward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. There are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they're staying with Dandy and Hugh. Dandy and her detective partner, eyeglassesAlec Osborne, clocks and watches spontaneously melted. But are these attacks had not taken up the chance to look into a prelude problem at the Cramond ferry when it was offered to something greater?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099512769</amazonuk>them twice before, but suddenly the possibility of being out of the house at Gilverton seems irresistible.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James P BlaylockSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title=The Aylesford SkullHonjin Murders
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Langdon StTo many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'. For those who need more, here is the extra background – we're in rural Japan in the 1930s. The oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great haste. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Ives Either way, renowned scientist and adventurerthe celebrations have gone ahead as planned, returns home from only for the hubbub and grime of Victorian London wedded couple to be slashed to his tranquil residence death in rural Aylesford where he lives with his wife Alice and their two young childrenprivate annexe before the sun rises on their marriage. Weary What with a man missing parts of his fingers being in the cityneighbourhood, having survived a devastating explosion and particularly vicious attempt on his life, he is hoping for some repose and mysterious use of a chance to work quietly on his latest project; traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, this case has a dirigible airshiplot of the peculiar about it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857689797</amazonuk>1782275002
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen GallagherB07XLM3SM6|title=The Kingdom of BonesMurder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary='If you like this sort of thing…' reads a line Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Stephen Gallagher's 'The Kingdom of Bones'Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, 'then here comes in the kind care of thing you’ll like'her grandmother. It’s describing A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the opening music for a theatrical numberconclusion was that she was dead, but it’s an almost perfect tagline for mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with this and in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was ill. She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. She''The Kingdom s always coped with the mix of Bones'' itself. If you like Victoriansholidaymakers, vaudeville boating people and villainy, if you like prizethe naval college on the edge of town before -fighting and police chases she's done every job in the hotel. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things ''and possession by the Devil, then here comes 'The Kingdom ' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of Bones'. It’s security at the kind of thing that you’re really going to likehotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091950139</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dashiell Hammett0349423067|title=The Return of Body on the Thin ManTrain (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=IFrom Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King've recently been discovering the original works of Raymond Chandler whichs Cross, like many people, I'd only really known from arriving before dawn so that the Hollywood renditionsforced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. A naturalIn early March 1929, if backwards, progression from there one of the porters who was clearly to unloading the boxes discovered the writer that Chandler body of a man, stripped naked and with no means of identification. Scotland Yard hit a dead end and called 'on the services of Kate Shackleton in the ace performer', hope that her knowledge and connections in Yorkshire would give them the man 'who did over lead they needed. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and over again what only could not come to terms with the best writers ever do at fact that she was now a woman experienced in dealing with murder. He was reluctant to give her all'the information which the police held.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800208</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Essie Fox1472127110|title=Elijah's MermaidIndian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Sara Sheridan
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Author Augustus Lamb receives a shocking letter from his publisher Life has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, since the war, and old friend Frederick Hallnot always for the better. Hall has discovered Lamb's small grandchildrenWhen she first settled in Brighton she was alone, Lily rudderless and Elijahsecretly grieving for Jack, in a London home for foundlings. Lamb's son Gabriel had the lover who died after a socially unacceptable liaison with beautiful Italian Isabella who subsequently disappearedbefore he could leave his wife. Delighted beyond words at Hall's discoveryAs time went by she found in herself an ability to solve crimes, Augustus adopts the twinsmade friends including an ebullient and determined young woman called Vesta who refused to let a little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, raising them and even found consolation in his Herefordshire country home, Kingsland House. There the children grow, happy and lovedarms of a rather charming policeman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409123340</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Carnac1912374439|title=The Autobiography of Jack the RipperCourier|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=The Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, I've given the game away. For in a book that centres around a murder, I'Autobiography'' presents itself as ve told you who did it – the Ripper’s story told from his own perspective. The son of an impoverished doctorNazis, surely? Well, young Carnac that certainly has a childhood obsession with blood to remain to be seen in this volume, which a series splits its time between one of unfortunate events morphs into war, when a full-blown desire young woman sees her father arrested, and their store condemned as Jewish and rushes to her best friend to slit human throatshelp – not knowing she will never see her alive again, and the late 1960s, when great consternation is being felt. It’s the typical Victorian coming-of-age story (from birthIn this timeline, a maverick agent is back in town, to schoolone who might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, then first love even though she and finally adulthood) he lived together with their baby as a twistyoung family, except he was thought by all to have died in that the path Carnac’s on leads him to become not a responsible adult but the most famous murderer of the nineteenth century.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552165395</amazonuk>War…
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|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Cecilia had had more surnames than was usual for Meet Zofia. A socially climbing wife of a medical professor, she's intent on making herself known as a young woman in the late nineteenth centurycharitable lady, and keen on her husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. She was born Henderson In 1890s Cracow, life is pretty good, but married Robert Castello and quickly came to realise that he was an adulterer with a drink problemshe knows it could always be better. A womanMeanwhile, other people's place was thought life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the city due to be with her husband - even by Cecilia's wealthy parents - but they recognised that forcing her lack of hygiene, and many people have to go back fall on charity and almshouses to him could be problematicalkeep a roof over their heads. As a compromise One such was Mrs Mohr, although she was sent rich enough to Malvern to take a water cure keep private lodgings and it staff in her charitable home. I say ''was there that '', for she came into contact with Dr James Gullyhas vanished. He was a good deal older than Cecilia but a relationship developed between the two - affection on CeciliaOnly due to Zofia's part (probably the most of which help does she was capable) get found, dead and love on hisin a place the near-lame woman could never reach by herself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709098383</amazonuk> Just who could be killing people in a charity home, and to what end? And why does Zofia feel the need to make a name for herself by answering those questions?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graeme Kent1786893762|title=One BloodThings in Jars|author=Jess Kidd
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Sergeant Kella A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is being sent from his native Malaita to still struggling with the shame and frustration left by a previous case, where the child was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another part of the Solomon Islands to investigate logging sabotage therelook. In This detective is a woman, and the same districtsetting is Victorian London, his friend Sister Conchita has assumed reluctant control with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a mission fascination with three elderly sisters living there who are rather set the bizarre and the downright hideous. And before you're more than a couple of pages in their ways, to say the leastyou realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Then Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a body turns up widow's cap and stout, shiny boots, but the tobacco she smokes in the church… her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!) is this related mixed with a nugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the sabotage? by. Her housemaid, being seven-foot-tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And how does the wartime history then, of John F Kennedycourse, vying to become there's the new President of ghost. Ruby Doyle, world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and it's clear he has a soft spot for the USAdetermined young woman. If he really exists, fit in to all of this?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013411</amazonuk>that is.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Long0349414327|title=Murders of London: In the steps of the capital's killers |rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=While the true crime specialist reader may prefer books which deal in one case in depth, there’s always room for another title at the other end A Snapshot of the spectrum, dealing in brief with a variety of murders over the years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946720</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Shirley McKay|title=Time and Tide|rating=4.5|genre=Crime Murder (Historical)|summary=A ship is wrecked on the coast of 16th century Scotland, the crew gone, the only man on board dying and a windmill lashed to its deck. What happened? What sort of illness does it carry? And, more importantly for the town's people, who gets to keep the windmill? It's a tough one, but university professor and erstwhile lawyer Hew Cullan is on the case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972183</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Daniel Stashower|title=The Harry Houdini Kate Shackleton Mysteries: The Dime Museum Murders|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=There are two things you need to know about Stashower's Harry Houdini. Firstly, he is a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes. Secondly, and much more importantly, he is utterly certain of his own ability to do whatever he sets his mind to. Therefore, when he finds himself involved, albeit in a minor way, in a murder, he immediately decides it is up to him to solve the case. It never occurs to him that he might fail, because that is simply not an option for the Great Houdini.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857682849</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maureen Jennings|title=Let Loose the Dogs: Murdoch MysteriesFrances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=The fourth book in Even detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her the series of mysteries mental relaxation which star Detective William Murdoch is setshe needs. When the local Photographic Society proposed an outing, like Kate was keen to take the othersopportunity to visit Haworth and Stanbury, in Torontonot least because the deeds of the Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a museum and her parents will be there for the event. Religion, money and What could be better than seeing her family rule this late-Victorian city just as they do back 'home' in England, witnessing a momentous event and Murdoch's struggles for truth and justice, not having the opportunity to mention his love life, are played out against the sense take photographs of guilt and the moral restrictions imposed upon him by his Catholic faithsetting for ''Wuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689908</amazonuk> Or could it?
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