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Original title: The Pushover
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: Fifth Annual Edition, the (1996) [Anthology]
      Authors: Lawrence Block , William F. Nolan , Sharyn McCrumb , Bill Pronzini , Ed Gorman , Max Allan Collins , J.N. (Jerry) Williamson , Sara Paretsky , Marcia Muller , Peter Lovesey , Joan Hess , Jon L. Breen , Barbara Paul , Nancy Pickard , L.J. Washburn , Susan Kelly , Edward D. Hoch , Anne Perry , Peter Crowther , Carole Nelson Douglas , Richard T. Chizmar , Julian Rathbone , Ian Rankin , John Harvey , Jean B. Cooper , Kathleen Dougherty
     Murder Most British (1996) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ruth Rendell , Agatha Christie , Arthur Conan Doyle , Dorothy L. Sayers , A. A. Milne , G. K. Chesterton , Peter Lovesey , Gillian Linscott , Margaret Yorke , Robert Barnard , Simon Brett , R. Austin Freeman , Michael Gilbert , H. R. F. Keating , Julian Symons , Thomas Burke , Anthony Gilbert , Jeffry Scott , Baroness Orczy , Helen Simpson
     Mystery's Most Wanted: The Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories (1997) [Anthology]
      Authors: Lawrence Block , Sharyn McCrumb , Bill Pronzini , Ed Gorman , Max Allan Collins , Sara Paretsky , Marcia Muller , Peter Lovesey , Joan Hess , Nancy Pickard , Anne Perry , Carole Nelson Douglas , Ian Rankin , John Harvey , Jean B. Cooper , Kathleen Dougherty
     Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose (1998) [Collection]
      Author: Peter Lovesey