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Original title: A Matter of Principal
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 :
     Stalkers (1989) [Anthology]
      Authors: Robert R. McCammon , Dean R. Koontz , Charles de Lint , Barry N. Malzberg , F. Paul Wilson , Joe R. Lansdale , Richard Laymon , Ed Gorman , Max Allan Collins , Rex Miller , Rick Hautala , J.N. (Jerry) Williamson , Al Sarrantonio , Edward D. Hoch , John Maclay , Trish Janeshutz , James Kisner , Dan Lowry , Michael Seidman , John Coyne
     Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: First Annual Edition, the (1992) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ruth Rendell , Lawrence Block , Joe R. Lansdale , Andrew Vachss , Kristine Kathryn Rusch , Sue Grafton , Henry Slesar , Bill Pronzini , Max Allan Collins , Sara Paretsky , Marcia Muller , Peter Lovesey , Joan Hess , John Lutz , Nancy Pickard , Faye Kellerman , Jeremiah Healy , Edward D. Hoch , Robert Barnard , Charlotte MacLeod , Michael Gilbert , Lynne Barrett , Clark Howard , James Kisner , William Bankier
     Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction, the (1996) [Anthology]
      Authors: Harlan Ellison , Lawrence Block , Jim Thompson , Donald E. Westlake , Dashiell Hammett , James M. Cain , David Goodis , William F. Nolan , Charles Willeford , Robert Bloch , Ross MacDonald , John D. MacDonald , Bill Pronzini , Paul Cain , Max Allan Collins , Joe Gores , John Lutz , Mickey Spillane , Gil Brewer , Fredric Brown , Howard Browne , Jack Ritchie , William Campbell Gault , Thomas S. Roche , William P. McGivern , Willis Todhunter (W.T.) Ballard , Robert Leslie Bellem , Day Keene , Armitage Trail , Bruno Fischer , B. Traven , Charles Williams
     Love Kills (1997) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ruth Rendell , Lawrence Block , Donald E. Westlake , Maxim Jakubowski , Joe L. Hensley , Bill Pronzini , Ed Gorman , Max Allan Collins , Joe Gores , Ed Bryant , Marcia Muller , Dorothy B. Hughes , Bill Crider , John Lutz , Barbara Collins , Evan Hunter , Nancy Pickard , Sandra Scoppettone , Greg Cox , Jonathan Craig , James M. Reasoner , Peter Crowther , Ron Goulart , Richard T. Chizmar , Morris Hershman , Jerry Sykes , Richard Deming , Larry Segriff , Brian Lawrence , Marthayn Pelegrimas , Jim Combs
     Century of Great Suspense Stories, a (2001) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ruth Rendell , Stephen King , Harlan Ellison , Lawrence Block , Donald E. Westlake , James M. Cain , Robert Bloch , Sharyn McCrumb , Ross MacDonald , John D. MacDonald , Bill Pronzini , Ed Gorman , Max Allan Collins , Georges Simenon , Jeffery Deaver , Sara Paretsky , Marcia Muller , John Lutz , Jeremiah Healy , Margaret Millar , Mickey Spillane , Rex Stout , Edward D. Hoch , Fredric Brown , Anthony Boucher , Robert Barnard , Tony Hillerman , Lisa Scottoline , Stanley Ellin , Michael Malone , Ed McBain , Ellery Queen , Anna Katharine Green , Erle Stanley Gardner , Janwillem van de Wetering , Steve Martini