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

    By Lester Del Rey

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    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—
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateOct 14, 2016
    ISBN9781515411901
    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

      No Strings Attached

      by Lester del Rey

      © 2016 Positronic Publishing

      Cover Image © Can Stock Photo Inc. / Vadimsadovski

      Positronic Publishing

      PO Box 632

      Floyd VA 24091

      ISBN 13: 978-1-5154-1190-1

      First Positronic Publishing Edition

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      No Strings Attached

      by Lester del Rey

      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—

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      Committing 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

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