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Title: The Corpse's Alibi

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Title: The Corpse's Alibi Title Record # 1905139
Author: Frank Belknap Long
Date: 1939-11-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: Intern John Holden has decided to murder chicken farmer Mr. Talman who is dying of cancer and steal the radium that is treating his disease. He hides the radium under the floorboards, but is discovered, in this three page story, by the police using a newly created robotic chicken that clucks around radiation.
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1939 The Corpse's Alibi [as by Frank Belknap Long, Jr.]

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Detective and Murder Mysteries, November 1939 2013-03-21 ed. uncredited Adventure House 978-1-59798-452-2
$14.95?$: US dollar
110
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
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