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Stephen King calls Abrahams his "favorite American suspense novelist" -- and if you can't trust Stephen King, whom can you trust?
- ↑ "Abrahams, Peter 1947–".
- ↑ Not to be confused with the Spencer Quinn who wrote the song "May Day" for a Mae West album
- ↑ "Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind: Solving the Mystery of Spencer Quinn's True Identity". www.sarahweinman.com. Archived from the original on March 11, 2009.
- ↑ www.chetthedog.com
