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Why Do People Read Detective Stories?
Not Quite Dead Enough, by Rex Stout
by Edmund Wilson
The New Yorker, October 14, 1944, pp. 73-75
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Reviewed Books and Films
  1. Not Quite Dead Enough (1944)
    Rex Stout
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  2. The Nero Wolfe Omnibus (1944)
    Rex Stout
    1 Review
  3. Death Comes as the End (1944)
    Agatha Christie
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  4. The Maltese Falcon (1930)
    Dashiell Hammett
    4 Reviews, 1 Readable
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