“For a temporary shorthand-typist to be present at the discovery of a corpse on the first day of a new assignment, if not unique, is sufficiently rare to prevent its being regarded as an occupational hazard.”
 ‘Original Sin’ by PD James
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Try one of these 1st paras & discover a new author:-
‘The Rainmaker’ by John Grisham 
‘To Have and Have Not’ by Ernest Hemingway 
‘A Bouquet of Barbed Wire’ by Andrea Newman 

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