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assassination and those detailed under his complete works. He wrote 22-books in all, and produced on average a book in almost every year from 1975, in which year he wrote on
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The Murder of a Mystery Man: Charles-Christophe Taschereau,
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160:An Account of the April Insurrection in Sri Lanka
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