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Available
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Publication
Vintage (1978), 256 pages
Description
Gavin Stevens, county attorney for Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, finds that the cases that cross his desk often deal with a more general human mystery.
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LibraryThing member A_musing
Faulkner demonstrates that he can master the simple short story as well as the complex and brooding novel. Well, sort of simple...
LibraryThing member antiquary
When I was young, my mother (who knew southern literature from the inside, as a southerner and literary scholar of Faulkner's time) recommended this to me. It remains one of the few Faulner pieces I read with pleasure, though I think its quality is not significantly above other popular detective
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LibraryThing member dbsovereign
Faulkner writes great motivation for crime...
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1949
ISBN
0394727290 / 9780394727295