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He is regarded as one of the greatest playwrights of the victorian era. They started out publishing romance and mystery novels in 1999 as themselves, and under the pseudonyms joye ames, j. A dickens of a murder, written by joyce and jim lavene, is the first book in a new series, a canterville book shop mystery. Great deals on one book or all books in the series.
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