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Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone

Benjamin Stevenson
Chapters (66)
  1. Cover
  2. About the Book
  3. Dedication
  4. PROLOGUE
  5. MY BROTHER
  6. CHAPTER 1
  7. MY STEPSISTER
  8. CHAPTER 2
  9. CHAPTER 3
  10. CHAPTER 4
  11. CHAPTER 5
  12. CHAPTER 6
  13. CHAPTER 7
  14. CHAPTER 8
  15. MY WIFE
  16. CHAPTER 9
  17. MY FATHER
  18. CHAPTER 10
  19. CHAPTER 11
  20. CHAPTER 12
  21. CHAPTER 13
  22. CHAPTER 14
  23. CHAPTER 14.5
  24. CHAPTER 15
  25. MY MOTHER
  26. CHAPTER 16
  27. CHAPTER 17
  28. CHAPTER 18
  29. CHAPTER 19
  30. CHAPTER 20
  31. CHAPTER 21
  32. MY STEPFATHER
  33. CHAPTER 22
  34. CHAPTER 23
  35. CHAPTER 24
  36. CHAPTER 25
  37. CHAPTER 26
  38. CHAPTER 27
  39. MY AUNT
  40. CHAPTER 27.5
  41. CHAPTER 28
  42. CHAPTER 29
  43. MY WIFE
  44. CHAPTER 30
  45. CHAPTER 31
  46. CHAPTER 32
  47. MY SISTER-IN-LAW(former)
  48. CHAPTER 33
  49. CHAPTER 34
  50. CHAPTER 35
  51. CHAPTER 36
  52. CHAPTER 37
  53. MY STEPFATHER(again)
  54. CHAPTER 38
  55. MY BROTHER
  56. CHAPTER 39
  57. MY UNCLE
  58. CHAPTER 40
  59. ME
  60. CHAPTER 41
  61. EPILOGUE
  62. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  63. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Cover

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About the Book

Agatha Christie meets Knives Out in this fiendishly clever blend of classic and modern murder mystery.

I was dreading the Cunningham family reunion even before the first murder. Before the storm stranded us at the mountain resort, snow and bodies piling up. The thing is, us Cunninghams don’t really get along. We’ve only got one thing in common: we’ve all killed someone.

My brother, my stepsister, my wife, my father, my mother, my sister-in-law (former), my uncle, my stepfather, my aunt, me.

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Dedication

Aleesha Paz.

At last this one’s yours.

Though they always have been, and always will be.

Do you promise that your detectives shall well and truly detect the crimes presented to them using those wits which it may please you to bestow upon them and not placing reliance on nor making use of Divine Revelation, Feminine Intuition, Mumbo Jumbo, Jiggery-Pokery, Coincidence, or Act of God?

Membership oath of the Detection Club, 1930, a secret society of mystery writers including Agatha Christie, GK Chesterton, Ronald Knox, and Dorothy L Sayers.

1) The criminal must be someone mentioned in the early part of the story, but must not be anyone whose thoughts the reader has been allowed to follow.

2) All supernatural or preternatural agencies are ruled out as a matter of course.

3) Not more than one secret room or passage is allowable.

4) No hitherto undiscovered poisons may be used, nor any appliance which will need a long scientific explanation at the end.

5) Author’s note: Culturally outdated historical wording redacted.

6) No accident must ever help the detective, nor must he ever have an unaccountable intuition which proves to be right.

7) The detective must not himself commit the crime.

8) The detective must not light on any clues which are not instantly produced for the inspection of the reader.

9) The stupid friend of the detective, the Watson, must not conceal any thoughts which pass through his mind; his intelligence must be slightly, but very slightly, below that of the average reader.

10) Twin brothers, and doubles generally, must not appear unless we have been duly prepared for them.
Ronald Knox’s ‘10 Commandments of Detective Fiction’, 1929

PROLOGUE

Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once.