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Links To Other Sites
Here are some sites that you may find interesting. The ones marked with an * are sites where I have found opening lines included on this site. The great deal of work put in by those sites in gathering and publishing this information is gratefully acknowledged. (Apologies to anyone that I haven't got around to including yet).

Book Lovers
*Miskatonic University Press, William Denton, Prop. William Denton is a Canadian with a love of books, particularly detective fiction.
Quizzes
*First Lines Over twenty first line quizzes each with twenty questions
*First-Few-Lines Game - Must Read Books A quiz (47 questions) with answers
Reference
* A huge repository of quotations of all types
Booksellers
*Powells.com Online bookseller with Synopses and Reviews
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