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All The Flowers Are Dying by Lawrence Block

All The Flowers Are Dying

by Lawrence Block
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  • First Published:
  • Feb 1, 2005, 304 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Feb 2006, 384 pages
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"I'm pretty much retired," I said. "Not formally, because there's no need. But I don't go looking for business, and the phone doesn't ring very often, and when it does I usually find a reason to turn down whatever's on offer…

From All the Flowers Are Dying by Lawrence Block. HarperCollins Publishers. Used by permission.

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