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The Telling of Lies

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The Telling of Lies
First edition
AuthorTimothy Findley
LanguageEnglish
PublisherViking Press
Publication date
1986
Publication placeCanada
ISBN0140241159
Preceded byNot Wanted on the Voyage 
Followed byStones 

The Telling of Lies is a 1986 novel by Timothy Findley.[1] A murder mystery, the novel centres on Vanessa Van Horne, a landscape architect who witnesses the apparent murder of pharmaceutical mogul Calder Maddox at the seaside Aurora Sands Hotel in Maine.[2]

Following the book's paperback publication in the United States in 1988, the novel won the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original in 1989.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Summers of sand and Shonagon lend color to Findley's Lies". The Globe and Mail, November 15, 1986.
  2. ^ "The refined art of a story-teller". The Globe and Mail, October 25, 1986.
  3. ^ "U.S. crime writers honor Findley". The Globe and Mail, May 18, 1989.