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The first story is about an old lady's boat trip to Alaska - how much of a nice old woman is she? A crime novel by Karen Bender - She grew up in Los Angeles and now lives in North Carolina with her husband, writer Robert Anthony Siegel, and their two children. She is the author of the novel Like Normal People. Her stories have appeared in magazines including The New Yorker, Granta, Ploughshares, Zoetrope, Story, The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, and have also been published in numerous anthologies. She won the Ron Jaffe Award in 1997. The second story is about our well-known and beloved little man Hercule Poirot, and is just as adored as his creator Agatha Christie (from the archives)