Detecting Texts JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / Africa and a range of activities

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the limited financial resources of their constituents

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taught cooking classes

Detecting Texts JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / Africa and a range of activitiesAlthough readers of detective fiction ordinarily expect to learn the mystery's solution at the end, there is another kind of detective storythe history of which encompasses writers as diverse as Poe, Borges, Robbe Grillet, Auster, and Stephen Kingthat ends with a question rather than an answer. The detective not only fails to solve the crime, but also confronts insoluble mysteries of interpretation and identity. As the contributors to Detecting Texts