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Because dorothy gilman also wrote the maze in the heart of the castle, the childrens book often referenced in the text, which i had already read, my young mind had trouble understanding the metafictional conceit i thought the tightrope walker was a real story about an author who was really murdered. Begun in a time when women in mystery meant agatha christie s miss marple and international espionage meant young government men like james bond and the spies of john le carre and graham greene, emily pollifax, her. While playing it one night, she discovers a hidden note inside. The tightrope walker is unrelated to the authors famous, very long mrs.
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