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Crime Never Pays
from the back cover: Murder: the unlawful, intentional killing of a human being - a terrible crime. But murder stories are always fascinating. Who did it? And how? Or why? And was it murder, or just an unfortunate accident? Who will triumph, the murderer or the detective? This collection contains a wide range of murder stories, from the astute detection of the famous Sherlock Holmes, to the ch…
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- 9780194226936
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- 144p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms Collection
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- CHR
Deadlock
from the back cover: V. I. Warshawski, private investigator, Chicago, USA. People imagine private detectives to be tired-looking men in raincoats, but Vic is female. She's tough, beautiful, carries a gun - and goes on asking questions until she gets answers. When her cousin Boom Boom dies in an accident, Vic is naturally upset. She wants to know how and why the accident happened, and she isn't…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792219
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- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 5
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- PAR
The Mystery of Manor Hall
from the back cover: The Oxford Bookworms Library offers high-quality storytelling and a great reading experience, with a world wide range of classic and modern fiction, non-fiction and plays. Bookworms include original and adapted texts in seven carefully graded language stages (Starter to Stage 6), which take learners from beginner to advanced level.
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- 9780194785990
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- 40p; ill; col; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms Starter
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- CAM
Police TV
from the back cover: 'Every day someone steals money from people near the shops. We must stop this,' says Dan, a police officer. The police use TV cameras but it is not easy because there are so many suspects - who is the robber?
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- 9780194234252
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- 40p; ill; col; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms Starter
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- VIC
Give Us the Money
from the back cover: 'Every day is the same. Nothing exciting ever happens to me,' thinks Adam one boring Monday morning. But today is not the same. When he helps a beautiful young woman because some men want to take her bag, life gets exciting and very, very dangerous.
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194234139
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- 72p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms Starter
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- CLA
The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories
from the back cover: Everybody has bad dreams. Horrible things move towards you in the dark, things you can hear but not see. Then you wake up, in your own warm bed, and turn over to go back to sleep. But imagine that you wake up on a hard floor, in a darkness blacker than the blackest night. You listen to the silence, and smell a wet dead smell. Death is all around you, waiting . . . In th…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790871
- Collation
- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworm stage 2
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- POE
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