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He is perhaps best known for his edgar award winning novel published in 1996. The chatham school affair is a suspense novel detailing a crime of passion that takes place amid the rigid environment of an elite new england boys school. Paperback, 2019 by pierre alex jeanty, jada hawkins. Henry griswald looks back on 192627, the year disaster overtook the chatham school, where his mild. The chatham school affair book austin public library. In this literate, compelling novel, he observes the lives of people doomed to fates beyond their control and imagination. Like the best of his crimewriting colleagues, cook breakheart hill uses the genre to open a window onto the human condition.
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