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Fiction Lilian Pizzichini enjoys a deft mix of agatha christie and arabia

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20060528
Author:Lilian Pizzichini

Miss Webster and Chrif

BY PATRICIA DUNCKER

BLOOMSBURY, pounds 12.99, 244 pp T pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115

Patricia Duncker writes novels which play with the notion of the detective story. Hallucinating Foucault and The Deadly Space Between, in particular, employ the classic features of the genre - a mystery that needs to be solved and a plot that accelerates to an unforeseen conclusion. Duncker is a fine exponent of concision, which is essential to the nature of mystery, and timing, which is essential to its revelation. In fact, she works them both so well that revelations ...

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