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Summer Rerun: Accident by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

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The Dread of a Serial Killer

This is a short story by Flannery O'Connor, one of the classic 20th century short stories. The thing that works about this is how effectively it's written and that's why I wanted to start talking about it with the tone. It actually functions in a short story way differently than I think a lot of her stories do. And what's really funny is that this short story features a detective, but it is not detective fiction. This is crime fiction.

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