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mystery

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“No rational trader would take that trade. Yet we wonder why labor force participation lags. It’s not a mystery. It’s math.”

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Until The Gambian government confirmed his presence, his whereabouts had remained a mystery although there was speculation that he had fled to another country in the region.

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The game itself was inspired by Anthony Pratt's evenings playing piano in grand country hotels, where murder mystery games were a regular form of entertainment.

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Our reviewer, Steven Poole, wrote that “the book proceeds like a convoluted murder mystery, introducing one suspect after another in what seems like an open-and-shut case, before puncturing the promising narrative with an inconvenient fact.”

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