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Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.

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The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.

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When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.

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Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.

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An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

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On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.

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I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.

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I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

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As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement. I knew it was going to work.

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I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: March 2nd, 1943

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