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Original title: The Reason Why
Original languages: English

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Genre: Fiction→ Crime and Mystery→ Suspense

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     Criminal Elements (1988) [Collection]
      Author: Ed Gorman
     Under the Gun (1990) [Anthology]
      Authors: Dean R. Koontz , F. Paul Wilson , Joe R. Lansdale , Sue Grafton , Bill Pronzini , Ed Gorman , Max Allan Collins , Loren D. Estleman , Sara Paretsky , Peter Lovesey , Joan Hess , Antonia Fraser , James M. Reasoner , Edward D. Hoch , Robert Barnard , Stuart M. Kaminsky , Simon Brett , Joseph Hansen , Clark Howard , Bill Crenshaw , William Bankier
     Prisoners and Other Stories (1992) [Collection]
      Author: Ed Gorman
     Women on the Edge (1992) [Anthology]
      Authors: John D. MacDonald , Bill Pronzini , Ed Gorman , Max Allan Collins , Barbara Michaels , Loren D. Estleman , Sara Paretsky , Marcia Muller , Bill Crider , Barbara Collins , Nancy Pickard , Richard T. Chizmar , Howard Browne , Wayne D. Dundee
     Moonchasers and Other Stories (1996) [Collection]
      Author: Ed Gorman
     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
     Fifth Grave, the: And Other Terrifying Tales of Homicide in the Heartland (1998) [Anthology]
      Authors: Barry N. Malzberg , John D. MacDonald , Ed Gorman , Sara Paretsky , John Lutz , William J. Reynolds , Carolyn G. Hart , Joyce Harrington , Edward D. Hoch , Richard T. Chizmar , M.D. Lake , Jack Ritchie , James O'Keefe
     Century of Noir, a (2002) [Anthology]
      Authors: Lawrence Block , Donald E. Westlake , Leigh Brackett , James M. Cain , David Goodis , Ross MacDonald , John D. MacDonald , Bill Pronzini , Ed Gorman , Max Allan Collins , Chester Himes , Loren D. Estleman , Sara Paretsky , Marcia Muller , Dorothy B. Hughes , John Lutz , Evan Hunter , Lia Matera , Norbert Davis , Mickey Spillane , Gil Brewer , Fredric Brown , Robert J. Randisi , Stuart M. Kaminsky , Benjamin M. Schutz , John Jakes , Talmage Powell , William Campbell Gault , Carroll John Daly , Stephen Marlowe , William P. McGivern , Richard S. Prather