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      <title>On the problem of book two</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Notes on the particular difficulty of starting the second Cresthollow Bay mystery. The first book has a murder in it. This is not, on reflection, a surprising feature of a mystery novel, but it does present a logistical problem when you come to write the second one: you have already used your murder. You have to find another.]]></description>
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      <title>On writing a town that does not quite exist</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Notes on the invention of Cresthollow Bay, the fictional setting of the mystery series. Cresthollow Bay does not exist. There is no harbour, no high street, no public library with a Returns trolley near the front door. There is no Iris, no Otto, no constable Suggs, and no herring gull called Gerald.]]></description>
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