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Running wild

by J. G. Ballard, Janet Woolley

After the brutal murder of thirty-two residents and the disappearance of their children in a West London community, a police psychiatric adviser analyses the crime through a forensic diary.

Accession 10816 ISBN 0091734983 Publisher Hutchinson
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