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    No Strings Attached
    No Strings Attached
    No Strings Attached
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    No Strings Attached

    By Lester Del Rey and Kelly Freas

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    No Strings Attached
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    Lester Del Rey

    Lester del Rey (June 2, 1915 – May 10, 1993) was an American science fiction author and editor. He was the author of many books in the juvenile Winston Science Fiction series, and the editor at Del Rey Books, the fantasy and science fiction imprint of Ballantine Books, along with his fourth wife Judy-Lynn del Rey.

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      No Strings Attached - Lester Del Rey

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      Title: No Strings Attached

      Author: Lester del Rey

      Illustrator: Kelly Freas

      Release Date: May 16, 2010 [EBook #32395]

      Language: English

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      No Strings Attached

      By Lester del Rey

      Illustrated by Kelly Freas

      Poor Henry was an unhappy husband whose wife had a habit of using bad clichès. Alféar was a genii who was, quite like most humans, a creature of habit. Their murder compact was absolutely perfect, with—

      ommitting a perfect murder is a simple matter. Drive out some night to a lonely road, find a single person walking along out of sight of anyone else, offer him a ride, knife him, and go home. In such a crime, there's no reason to connect killer and victim—no motive, no clue, no suspect.

      To achieve the perfect murder of a man's own wife, however, is a different matter. For obvious reasons, husbands are always high on the suspect list. Who has a better reason for such a crime?

      Henry Aimsworth had been pondering the problem with more than academic interest for some time. It wasn't that he hated his wife. He simply couldn't stand the sight or sound of her; even thinking about her made his flesh crawl. If she had been willing to give him a divorce, he'd have been content to wish her all the happiness she was capable of discovering. But Emma, unfortunately, was fond of being his wife; perhaps she was even fond of him. Worse, she was too rigidly bound to trite

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