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| Title | The game of thirty |
| Author | William Kotzwinkle |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin, 1994 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Mar 10, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0395532701, 9780395532706 |
| Length | 262 pages |
| Subjects | › › Detective and mystery stories Fiction / General Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled Fiction / Psychological New York (N.Y.) New York (N.Y.) - Fiction Private investigators Private investigators - New York (State) - New York - Fiction Private investigators/ New York (State)/ New York/ Fiction |
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