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Crime Fiction: The British Taste For A High Body Count

First Posted: 06/13/11 09:56 AM ET Updated: 08/13/11 06:12 AM ET

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guardian.co.uk:

Sliced to death in an olive machine? Decapitated by a glider cable? Squashed by a large brass wind instrument? These are just some of the ways in which victims were murdered over the last year by the UK's crime novelists.

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