User Sean Duggan

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Juvenile literature about a group of children living in a castle, looking for a treasure

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asked Jan 24, 2017 at 13:02

13 votes

1 answer

2k views

A girl, told that it's wonderful to live in Wales, goes off to live in a whale

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asked Feb 9, 2017 at 13:20

13 votes

1 answer

686 views

Ogden Nash poem on hiccups

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asked Sep 12, 2021 at 15:24

10 votes

0 answers

133 views

A pair of children decide that their neighbor is a witch and convince her to try flying

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asked Mar 1, 2017 at 19:04

10 votes

1 answer

204 views

Drama, probably set in a hospital, where we know early on (from the blurb?) that someone is going to die due to a doctor's mistake

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asked Mar 8, 2017 at 4:05

10 votes

1 answer

218 views

Book about a boy who develops several accidentally destructive science projects

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asked Sep 21, 2017 at 11:55

8 votes

1 answer

166 views

Short story where an older lady realizes that her new beau has been murdering his wives, but decides to go with it

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asked Nov 10, 2019 at 21:46

8 votes

2 answers

1k views

Book about a boy blinded by a firecracker

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asked Apr 28, 2017 at 12:24

7 votes

1 answer

102 views

Book involving the apprentice of a ranger who fixes a dented canteen with swollen grain, learns to use that to break gates

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asked Jan 19, 2018 at 4:05

6 votes

1 answer

63 views

Looking for a book (possibly a pair of them) with whimsical illustrations of misheard phrases

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asked Jun 7, 2018 at 11:51

6 votes

1 answer

89 views

Book involving the president-elect dying in a horse accident and electoral college shenanigans

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asked Nov 10, 2018 at 22:34

6 votes

1 answer

211 views

Novel about a contract killer being pursued by other killers - Started with an icepick guy and ended with a Latino woman disguised as a cleaning lady

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asked Mar 11, 2019 at 16:38

5 votes

0 answers

57 views

Book with stories continued on later pages with at least one misleading illustration due to the split involving a skeleton falling out of a closet

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asked Aug 14, 2020 at 20:53

4 votes

1 answer

1k views

Humorous novel about a man in a religious order who is sent into the outside world by his order, and has his worldview changed by his experiences

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asked Nov 15, 2020 at 16:27

4 votes

1 answer

191 views

Book about a mentally retarded girl being sexually assaulted by boys at her school, and one of them coming to grips with what he's done

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asked Jan 17, 2021 at 5:20

4 votes

1 answer

41 views

Small hardback with illustrations about an inventive boy and the houses he makes for his friends

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asked Jun 16, 2021 at 15:12

3 votes

1 answer

66 views

What are the changes between the touring version of "The Play That Goes Wrong" and the licensed stage version?

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asked Oct 5, 2021 at 17:47

3 votes

1 answer

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Female detective, former police. Dark and troubled past involving violently killing a house of criminals who were holding her hostage and abusing her

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asked Jan 11, 2019 at 13:34

3 votes

0 answers

56 views

Adventure / Mystery book with a cool old lady and her house with automated amusements

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asked Apr 19, 2019 at 15:31

3 votes

1 answer

56 views

Novel about women searching for a document that proves that the Louisiana Purchase is not legit, pursued by a face-changing assassin

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asked Feb 7 at 14:32

3 votes

1 answer

73 views

Play involving a writer being questioned by the police after children start dying in a way matching his stories

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asked Feb 8 at 17:46

2 votes

1 answer

56 views

Thriller novel where a mortician pulls rank to tend to a family friend's body, only to uncover a military conspiracy

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asked Mar 14 at 16:08

2 votes

0 answers

43 views

Looking for the source of a quote about women "giving birth in the field" and then "extracting the afterbirth with their big toe"

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asked Jun 1, 2021 at 13:31

2 votes

1 answer

256 views

Short story (or maybe a small book) about two students kidnapping a teacher

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asked Jan 17, 2018 at 2:34

2 votes

1 answer

116 views

Short children's book about a Mexican boy who likes to make clay horses

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asked Feb 2, 2020 at 17:32

2 votes

1 answer

70 views

Mystery short story where the owner of a dog is accidentally murdered via strychnine

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asked Mar 27, 2020 at 16:48

2 votes

1 answer

129 views

Novel with a spy/assassin who helps the grand-daughter of a Nazi hunter, speaks Basque from learning it from a book, escapes a cave through water

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asked Jul 19, 2020 at 13:50

2 votes

1 answer

90 views

Crime drama/mystery where a woman suffers a car crash, and searches for a child who doesn't exist

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asked Dec 10, 2020 at 16:22

2 votes

0 answers

56 views

Song (perhaps from around World War II) about a young woman being offered a coat, and requesting "just the sleeves"

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asked Dec 5, 2021 at 4:08

2 votes

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35 views

Short story where a traditional hard-boiled detective who puts himself forward as the last of a dying breed kills the wrong person

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asked Feb 2 at 19:55

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Juvenile literature about a group of children living in a castle, looking for a treasure

A girl, told that it's wonderful to live in Wales, goes off to live in a whale

Ogden Nash poem on hiccups

A pair of children decide that their neighbor is a witch and convince her to try flying

Drama, probably set in a hospital, where we know early on (from the blurb?) that someone is going to die due to a doctor's mistake

Book about a boy who develops several accidentally destructive science projects

Short story where an older lady realizes that her new beau has been murdering his wives, but decides to go with it

Book about a boy blinded by a firecracker

Book involving the apprentice of a ranger who fixes a dented canteen with swollen grain, learns to use that to break gates

Looking for a book (possibly a pair of them) with whimsical illustrations of misheard phrases

Book involving the president-elect dying in a horse accident and electoral college shenanigans

Novel about a contract killer being pursued by other killers - Started with an icepick guy and ended with a Latino woman disguised as a cleaning lady

Book with stories continued on later pages with at least one misleading illustration due to the split involving a skeleton falling out of a closet

Humorous novel about a man in a religious order who is sent into the outside world by his order, and has his worldview changed by his experiences

Book about a mentally retarded girl being sexually assaulted by boys at her school, and one of them coming to grips with what he's done

Small hardback with illustrations about an inventive boy and the houses he makes for his friends

What are the changes between the touring version of "The Play That Goes Wrong" and the licensed stage version?

Female detective, former police. Dark and troubled past involving violently killing a house of criminals who were holding her hostage and abusing her

Adventure / Mystery book with a cool old lady and her house with automated amusements

Novel about women searching for a document that proves that the Louisiana Purchase is not legit, pursued by a face-changing assassin

Play involving a writer being questioned by the police after children start dying in a way matching his stories

Thriller novel where a mortician pulls rank to tend to a family friend's body, only to uncover a military conspiracy

Looking for the source of a quote about women "giving birth in the field" and then "extracting the afterbirth with their big toe"

Short story (or maybe a small book) about two students kidnapping a teacher

Short children's book about a Mexican boy who likes to make clay horses

Mystery short story where the owner of a dog is accidentally murdered via strychnine

Novel with a spy/assassin who helps the grand-daughter of a Nazi hunter, speaks Basque from learning it from a book, escapes a cave through water

Crime drama/mystery where a woman suffers a car crash, and searches for a child who doesn't exist

Song (perhaps from around World War II) about a young woman being offered a coat, and requesting "just the sleeves"

Short story where a traditional hard-boiled detective who puts himself forward as the last of a dying breed kills the wrong person