Pick your victim

Name: Pick your victim
Author: Pat McGerr
ISBN: 0824023838

by Pat McGerr (1976)

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Pick Your Victim (1946),[2] tells the story of a small group of American soldiers in an isolated Arctic base who are desperate for reading material and diversion. They find a torn scrap of newspaper which has arrived as the cushioning for a parcel. The torn scrap tells part of the story of a man who has been convicted of a murder, and who is known personally by one of the GIs—the murderer is identified, but the name of the victim has been torn away. The GIs form a betting pool and pump their informant for every bit of information about any potential victim to enable them to better place their bets, and the story told by the informant is the body of the novel. At the end, the name of the victim is revealed. (From article on Wikipedia about Patricia McGerr)

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