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Tag: Naomi Hirahara

Mow the Lawn, Trim the Shrubs, Solve the Murder

Mow the Lawn, Trim the Shrubs, Solve the Murder

I have a rule that contends

Uncle Joe and Aunt Mabel were not the models for the characters in the novel you are reading.

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Posted on 06/21/201408/01/2021 by MikePosted in Authors, Books, Crime, Reading, ReviewsTagged atomic bomb, Hiroshima, Japanese gardener, Mas Arai, Naomi Hirahara, Philip Marlowe, Philip Roth, Sister Kate, Summer of the Big Bachi. Leave a comment

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