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It is strange how certain phrases stick with you. When I was a boy, my parents spent much of their leisure time reading murder mysteries—“whodunits,” as my mother called them. It was an American mania, and the books seemed to be written by formula. Victim dies, wrong suspect charged, detective brought in to solve case. And, of course, there was always a “smoking gun” that ultimately implicated the true murderer.
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© 1997 Peter D. Ward
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Ward, P.D. (1997). The Smoking Gun. In: The Call of Distant Mammoths. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1946-0_10
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