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Original title: Hoops
Original languages: English

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Genre: Fiction→ Crime and Mystery→ Suspense

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Sixth Annual Edition, the (1997) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ruth Rendell , Donald E. Westlake , James Grady , Bill Pronzini , S.J. Rozan , Sara Paretsky , Marcia Muller , John Lutz , Nancy Pickard , Lia Matera , Susan Kelly , Sarah Shankman , Edward D. Hoch , Brendan DuBois , Anne Perry , Walter Satterthwait , Reginald Hill , Robert J. Randisi , Simon Brett , Alan Russell , David August , Ed McBain , Sam Pizzo , Maude Miller , David Corn , Monica Quill
     Best American Mystery Stories 1997, the (1997) [Anthology]
      Authors: Elizabeth George , Elmore Leonard , Joyce Carol Oates , Allen M. Steele , Jonathan Kellerman , Jeffery Deaver , James Crumley , George P. Pelecanos , S.J. Rozan , Jeremiah Healy , Brendan DuBois , Doug Allyn , Melodie Johnson Howe , Mabel Maney , Michael Malone , Pat Jordan , Andrew Klavan , Brad Watson , John Weisman , Monica Wood
     Crime After Crime (1999) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ruth Rendell , Donald E. Westlake , Bill Pronzini , S.J. Rozan , Sara Paretsky , Marcia Muller , John Lutz , Nancy Pickard , Susan Kelly , Sarah Shankman , Edward D. Hoch , Anne Perry , Walter Satterthwait , Reginald Hill , Robert J. Randisi , Simon Brett , Alan Russell , David August , Ed McBain , Sam Pizzo
     Crème de la Crime (2000) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ruth Rendell , Lawrence Block , Andrew Vachss , Kristine Kathryn Rusch , Joyce Carol Oates , John Mortimer , Jeffery Deaver , S.J. Rozan , Peter Lovesey , Barbara D'Amato , Carolyn G. Hart , Janet LaPierre , Jeremiah Healy , Edward D. Hoch , Brendan DuBois , Anne Perry , Steven Saylor , Stuart M. Kaminsky , Benjamin M. Schutz , Simon Brett , Doug Allyn , Ian Rankin , Phil Lovesey , Melodie Johnson Howe , Clark Howard , Terence Faherty , Peter Robinson