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1Sheriff Bill _________ from John Ball's In The Heat Of The Night. (9)
6The Regie was Philo Vance's preferred brand of this. (9)
11In book collecting, the first of these is the most prized. (7)
12To print again. (7)
13Dan Brown's book preceding The Da Vinci Code (6,3,6)
14Automobiles with extra protection. (7,4)
16In Helen McCloy's Dance of Death the victim was in a strange _______ or heat-related state, and died of heatstroke in a snowstorm. (7)
17You can read about these outlaw shell fishermen in James Lee Burke's novels. (9)
20A quote from The Moonstone: "We had ___ breakfasts-- whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast. (3)
21The words grifter and mark are examples of con-man _____. (5)
23Opening line from Christie's Curtain: "Who is there who has ___ felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience __ feeling an old emotion? (3,2)
24In Barbara Parker's Blood Relations, a model claims she was raped in the ___ Room of a South Beach night club. (3)
25Railway timetables or _________. (9)
27When Inspector Morse became sick, or ____ ___, he allowed Sergeant Lewis to lead investigations. (4,3)
29False clues. (3,8)
32Elaine Flinn's debut novel about the antiques world. (7,2,6)
35Jabez Wilson's wages were described thusly in "The Red-Headed League." (7)
36V.I. Warshawski's home. (7)
37Actor Parker _________ played Frank Hardy on television. (9)
38Christie's spare writing has been described as this. (9)

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1_____ Garbo played Mata Hari in the 1931 movie. (5)
2A polygraph detects this. (5)
3Moriarty was evil, but Hannibal Lecter is even _______. (7)
4Michael Lister's debut, Power in the Blood, takes place in the Florida _________. (9)
5In R. Austin Freeman's The Cat's Eye, Dr. Thorndyke makes deductions from the neck bone of an _______, or porcupine anteater. (7)
6Statements admitting guilt. (11)
7One who garrotes. (9)
8In Evanovich's One For The Money, Stephanie Plum's Miata is ___________ after she fails to make the payments. (11)
9In Spiderman 2, the master criminal needs this form of hydrogen for his evil plan. (7)
10Specialists in insect-related forensics. (13)
14S.J. Rozan's novel about 9/11. (6,7)
15J.B. Priestley was awarded the Order of _____ in 1977. (5)
18This performing art is the centerpiece of Ngaio Marsh's Death of a Fool. (6-5)
19Some inmates are permitted day trips under close monitoring or ___________. (11)
22Edgar _____ Poe. (5)
24Burglars take these. (9)
26Fuss that gets raised. (3,3,3)
28The _______ Project was a play and movie about the murder of Mathew Shepherd in Wyoming. (7)
30Knives. (7)
31Procedure. (7)
33_____ Mott Davidson. (5)
34Clayton Rawson's Death From A Top Hat has two impossible killings in two different locked _____. (5)

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