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Big John the puppet

Big John the puppetMy fellow panellists at the recent Left Coast Crime event in Bristol, feeling that they couldn’t manage without me, built a likeness from paper and rag. Apparently it fooled the audience, though one or two people in the signing queue did a double-take.
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