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Detective Atticus Pund is not a real person.

He's a character in bestselling author Alan Conway's series of novels.

It's the very nature of a murder investigation.

You should have prepared yourself and free one lives.

No, I have dress.

The more you know someone, the more likely they are to deceive you.

But for Conway's editors, Susan Ryland, it increasingly seems like Pund is more real than not.

Do you mind getting out?

Hey, you want me to leave?

I was only putting forward certain possibilities.

Yes, will I don't want to hear them!

And unlike the real investigators looking into Alan Conway's untimely death, Pund alone appears to know what really happened.

Are you listening to me, Miss Ryland?

I'm here because Claire's on her own, and she's just lost her brother in the worst circumstances.

All right, did you tell her a few suspicions?

The Conway didn't write that letter, or that someone forced him to write it.

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