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The satiric detective story is rare in modern publishing, but does, occasionally, appear. However, it is more often a British than an American form. Robert Barnard's The Bad Samaritan (1997) is a good example of the genre, with its seamlessly plotted whodunit tale and yet its droll humor at the expense of small town gossips and tattletales. Therein, a pastor's wife who has lost her faith takes a seaside outing to rethink how her new mind-set changes her marital role. At her seaside hotel, she befriends a young Bosnian employee, whose wife and daughter remain in his beleaguered...
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