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Original title: Lucky Penny
Original languages: English

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Genre: Fiction→ Crime and Mystery→ Detective Story and Detectives→ General

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     Masterpieces of Mystery and Suspense (1988) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ruth Rendell , Stephen King , Agatha Christie , Isaac Asimov , Ray Bradbury , Arthur Conan Doyle , Frederick Forsyth , Dorothy L. Sayers , Mark Twain , Lawrence Block , Dick Francis , Donald E. Westlake , Robert Bloch , Sue Grafton , Ross MacDonald , John D. MacDonald , Bill Pronzini , G. K. Chesterton , Eric Ambler , Linda Barnes , Antonia Fraser , Rex Stout , Edward D. Hoch , John Dickson Carr , Reginald Hill , Robert Barnard , Patricia Moyes , Simon Brett , Michael Gilbert , P.D. James , Stanley Ellin , Julian Symons , Ellery Queen , Erle Stanley Gardner , Cornell Woolrich , Ursula Curtiss , Charlotte Armstrong , Nedra Tyre , Lillian de la Torre
     Modern Treasury of Great Detective and Murder Mysteries, a (1994) [Anthology]
      Authors: Lawrence Block , F. Paul Wilson , Robert Bloch , Sharyn McCrumb , Bill Pronzini , Margaret Maron , Joe Gores , Ed Bryant , Loren D. Estleman , Sara Paretsky , Linda Barnes , Marcia Muller , Joan Hess , John Lutz , Nancy Pickard , Faye Kellerman , Carolyn Wheat , Linda Grant , Wendy Hornsby , Margaret Millar , Edward D. Hoch , Charlotte MacLeod , Tony Hillerman , Clark Howard , Ed McBain
     Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996) [Anthology]
      Authors: Edgar Allan Poe , William Faulkner , T.S. Stribling , Raymond Chandler , Sue Grafton , Ross MacDonald , Bill Pronzini , Linda Barnes , Marcia Muller , Dorothy Salisbury Davis , Mary Roberts Rinehart , Mignon G. Eberhart , Rex Stout , Edward D. Hoch , Anthony Boucher , John Dickson Carr , Tony Hillerman , Ed McBain , Ellery Queen , Anna Katharine Green , Susan Glaspell , Jacques Futrelle , Erle Stanley Gardner , William Campbell Gault , Carroll John Daly , Robert Leslie Bellem , Melville Davisson Post , Cornell Woolrich , Bret Harte , Arthur B. Reeve , Clinton H. Stagg , Richard Sale , Clayton Rawson
     First Cases (1996) [Anthology]
      Authors: Lawrence Block , Sue Grafton , Bill Pronzini , Max Allan Collins , Joe Gores , Loren D. Estleman , Sara Paretsky , Linda Barnes , Marcia Muller , John Lutz , Jeremiah Healy , Michael Collins , Robert J. Randisi , Benjamin M. Schutz , Rob Kantner
     Century of Mystery 1980-1989, a (1997) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ruth Rendell , Isaac Asimov , Frederick Forsyth , Lawrence Block , Bill Pronzini , Ed Gorman , Loren D. Estleman , Julie Smith , Sara Paretsky , Linda Barnes , Marcia Muller , Peter Lovesey , Susan Dunlap , Reginald Hill , Robert Barnard , Tony Hillerman , Clark Howard , Brian Garfield , Janwillem van de Wetering , George V. Higgins
     Never Shake a Family Tree (1998) [Anthology]
      Authors: Mark Twain , Donald E. Westlake , Margaret Maron , Linda Barnes , Edward D. Hoch , Brendan DuBois , Fredric Brown , Ursula Curtiss , Janwillem van de Wetering , S.S. Rafferty , Donald Olson