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The Name of the Game Was Murder

by Joan Lowery Nixon

182 pages · 1993

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When she visits her great-uncle, a successful and self-centered author, at his fortress-like home on Catalina Island, fifteen-year-old Samantha becomes involved in his manipulative game that leads to murder.

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