Big sleep
noun
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Contemporary Examples
Peter Worthington: A Life Well Lived Justin Green May 22, 2013
Leave John Banville Alone! Why Chandler’s Marlowe Should Live On Ace Atkins September 5, 2012
J.K. Rowling’s Hardboiled Hoax Malcolm Jones July 16, 2013
Historical Examples
Two Arrows William O. Stoddard
Curly Roger Pocock
Lives of the Fur Folk M. D. Haviland
Lives of the Fur Folk M. D. Haviland
Baldy of Nome Esther Birdsall Darling
Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock
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