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  • Bibliography:
    71 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2012
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Ginger Gold Mystery

1 - Murder on the SS Rosa (May-2017)
2 - Murder at Hartigan House (Jun-2017)
3 - Murder at Bray Manor (Jul-2017)
4 - Murder at Feathers & Flair (Oct-2017)
5 - Murder at the Mortuary (Apr-2018)
6 - Murder at Kensington Gardens (Jun-2018)
7 - Murder at St. George's Church (Sep-2018)
8 - Murder Aboard the Flying Scotsman (Nov-2018)
9 - Murder at the Boat Club (Jul-2019)
10 - Murder on Eaton Square (Sep-2019)
11 - Murder by Plum Pudding (Nov-2019)
12 - Murder on Fleet Street (Jan-2020)
12.5 - The Wedding of Ginger & Basil (Jun-2020)
13 - Murder at Brighton Beach (Aug-2020)
14 - Murder in Hyde Park (Dec-2020)
15 - Murder at the Royal Albert Hall (Mar-2021)
16 - Murder in Belgravia (Jun-2021)
17 - Murder on Mallowan Court (Sep-2021)
18 - Murder at the Savoy (Mar-2022)
19 - Murder at the Circus (May-2022)
20 - Murder at the Boxing Club (Jul-2022)
21 - Murder in France (Nov-2022)
22 - Murder at Yuletide (Jan-2023)
23 - Murder at Madame Tussaud's (May-2023)
Lady Gold Investigates (May-2020)
Lady Gold Investigates Volume 2 (May-2020)

A Higgins & Hawke Mystery

1 - Death at the Tavern (Jan-2019)
2 - Death on the Tower (Apr-2019)
3 - Death on Hanover (Feb-2020)
4 - Death by Dancing (Jul-2023)

Jars of Clay

1 - Jars of Clay (Sep-2012)
2 - Broken Vessels (Feb-2014)

A Light & Love Sweet Romance

1 - Sing Me a Love Song (Aug-2019)
1.5 - Living in Starlight (Aug-2019)
2 - Your Love is Sweet (Sep-2019)
3 - In Light of Us (Sep-2019)

A Marlow and Sage Mystery / A Nursery Rhyme Suspense

1 - Gingerbread Man (Jan-2015)
2 - Life is But a Dream (Mar-2015)
3 - Hickory Dickory Dock (Feb-2016)
4 - Twinkle Little Star (Dec-2016)
4.5 - I Spy with My Little Eye (Jan-2017)

The Minstrel

1 - Sun & Moon (Jan-2014)
2 - Flesh & Bone (Mar-2014)
3 - Heart & Soul (Jul-2014)
3.5 - Peace and Goodwill (Oct-2014)

Perception

0.5 - Ambition (Nov-2012)
1 - Perception (Aug-2012)
2 - Volition (Apr-2013)
3 - Contrition (Sep-2013)

Playing with Matches

1 - Playing with Matches (Oct-2012)
2 - A Piece of Blue String (Apr-2013)

A Rosa Reed Mystery

1 - Murder at High Tide (Mar-2020)
2 - Murder on the Boardwalk (Apr-2020)
3 - Murder at the Bomb Shelter (May-2020)
4 - Murder on Location (Aug-2020)
5 - Murder and Rock 'n Roll (Nov-2020)
6 - Murder at the Races (Feb-2021)
7 - Murder at the Dude Ranch (Apr-2021)
8 - Murder in London (Aug-2021)
9 - Murder at the Fiesta (Jan-2022)
10 - Murder at the Weddings (Sep-2022)

Book List in Order: 71 titles

  • Perception

    Perception - 1

    ***A Library Journal Selection*** ETERNAL LIFE IS TO DIE FOR.

    Seventeen year old Zoe Vanderveen is a GAP--a genetically altered person. She lives in the security of a walled city on prime water-front property along side other equally be...

  • Jars of Clay

    Jars of Clay - 1

    Novella 22KJars of Clay + Broken Vessels = Romeo and Juliet in Ancient Rome*Jars of Clay (volume 1) and Broken Vessels (volume 2) contain strong religious themes and scenes of sensuality and violence. Recommended for ages 15 and up. Daughter of a wea...

  • Playing with Matches

    Playing with Matches - 1

    ***Inspired by true events*****Available in German as Gefährliche Zettel** Heinz Schultz's word could send a man to prison. Though only a youth of fifteen, he was strong, tall, and blond. The boys in his Deutsches Jungvolk unit esteemed him and fea...

  • Ambition

    Perception - 0.5

    Praise for AMBITION: "Suspenseful and entertaining."

    "This is a great prequel to the book perception."

    "Definitely worth reading."

    AMBITION is a short story prequel (5K- approx 20 pages) to PERCEPTION, capturing the beginn...

  • Volition

    Perception - 2

    ON THE RUN! Book 2 in the exciting continuation of Perception - by best-selling author Lee Strauss! Zoe Vanderveen is on therun with her captor turned rescuer, Noah Brody*They're in love. *Or at least that's what he tells her. Her memories have retur...

  • A Piece of Blue String

    Playing with Matches - 2

    A companion short story to Playing with Matches.  Excerpts from Katharina Ackermann's diary marking the turn of WW2 and of her heart to one special boy. Enjoy reading this well researched, dramatic story of what it was like to be a tee...

  • Contrition

    Perception - 3

    Book 3 in the dramatic conclusion of Perception -
    by Amazon best-selling author Lee Strauss!

    Zoe, Noah and the other
    plane crash survivors are stranded in the Arizona desert. 
    They all have secrets, 
    and reason...

  • East of Eden

    Regret is a formidable foe. 
    Eden Kelley is the primary caregiver for her mother who's in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease, and she's only twenty-four. Not what Eden planned to do when she left her husband for a new start with her fou...

  • Sun & Moon

    The Minstrel - 1

    An honest emotional journey toward unconditional loveKatja Stoltz is a singer-songwriter, hoping to make it in the indie music scene in Dresden, Germany. Micah Sturm's a brooding uptown banker on a quest.Forced to liv...



  • Broken Vessels

    Jars of Clay - 2

    Jars of Clay + Broken Vessels = Romeo and Juliette in Ancient Rome Jars of Clay (volume 1) and Broken Vessels (volume 2) contain strong religious themes and scenes of sensuality and violence. Recommended for ages 15 and up. With no way to prevent ...

  • Flesh & Bone

    The Minstrel - 2

     Singer songwriter Eva Baumann has a celebrity crush on Sebastian Weiss. He's perfect to love because there was no way they could ever be a thing.  She's a nobody. He's a heart throb. Hiding an infatuation is easy for her ...

  • Heart & Soul

    The Minstrel - 3

    She's heartbroken. He's heartless. Gabriele Baumann-Smith is deliriously in love with her young husband Lennon. Except, it turns out that Lennon Smith isn't his real name. In fact, he's full of secrets: a cottage on the southern British coast, an old...

  • East of the Sun

    Eden Kelley is suddenly the primary caregiver for her mother who's in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease. Not what she had planned to do when she left her husband for a new start with her four-year-old daughter in tow. She'd hoped for free ba...

  • Peace and Goodwill

    The Minstrel - 3.5

    *This is a Christmas Novella**Peace & Goodwill is set in The Minstrel Series world, but can be read alone.Belle gets the best Christmas present ever, a man in uniform! Ian is a soldier home on leave. Neither of them ha...

  • Gingerbread Man

    A Marlow and Sage Mystery / A Nursery Rhyme Suspense - 1

    When that cute chick you met online is murdered- but shows up for your next internet meeting anyway.Marlow's just a regular geeky freshman with little to no experience with girls, so when he has a semi-flirtatious chat with a cute girl online, it's a...

  • Life is But a Dream

    A Marlow and Sage Mystery / A Nursery Rhyme Suspense - 2

    When danger lurks in your sleep... dreams aren't real unless they are when someone wants to watch you drown you better pay attention Sage and Marlow are reunited in this second book of A Nursery Rhyme Suspense serial series. When Sage's dreams merge ...

  • Hickory Dickory Dock

    A Marlow and Sage Mystery / A Nursery Rhyme Suspense - 3

    When the future is murder. After a tumultuous freshman year solving the mystery at Detroit University, Marlow Henry and Sage Farrell look forward to a calm and uneventful summer break. Not gonna happen. Before Marlow can even make his blossoming r...

  • Twinkle Little Star

    A Marlow and Sage Mystery / A Nursery Rhyme Suspense - 4

    When you're dead wrong. Sage Farrell regrets missing her chance to be more than friends with Marlow Henry. But being alone and lonely in her sophomore year at Detroit University is the least of her problems. On a dark, quiet forest road something ju...

  • I Spy with My Little Eye

    A Marlow and Sage Mystery / A Nursery Rhyme Suspense - 4.5

    Praise for I Spy with My Little Eye: "A GREAT READ"

    "I liked it so much that I immediately read all the books in the series."

    When what you don't know will kill you.A dead Santa throws Marlow and Sage together in this Nursery Rhyme My...



  • Murder on the SS Rosa

    A Ginger Gold Mystery - 1

    "One of the most enjoyable mysteries to come out in months!!"In the spirit of Agatha Christie, Lee Strauss presents a brand new series reminiscent of the Golden Age of Mysteries.It's 1923 and young war widow fashionista Ginger Gold makes a cross-Atl...

  • Murder at Hartigan House

    A Ginger Gold Mystery - 2

    There's a skeleton in the attic!After a weeklong passage over the Atlantic from Boston to Liverpool, Ginger Gold arrives at her childhood London home--Hartigan House--to find decade-old remains from some poor woman on the floor in the attic. Ginger's...

  • Murder at Bray Manor

    A Ginger Gold Mystery - 3

    "Love this heroine/detective. If you are a fan of tv's Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries you will like these books."Totally enjoyable reading. Good pace to the story and amusing dialog. I love this series.""A great British who done it."A poltergeist gui...

  • Murder at Feathers & Flair

    A Ginger Gold Mystery - 4

    Espionage, intrigue . . . murder . . . It's 1924, and war-widow fashionista Ginger Gold s new Regent Street dress shop, Feathers & Flair, is the talk of the London fashion district, attracting aristocrats from Paris to Berlin to Moscow. Ginger is ...

  • Girl in Reverse

  • Murder at the Mortuary

    A Ginger Gold Mystery - 5

    Cadavers can be deadly . . .Unregistered corpses are showing up amongst the cadavers in the mortuary of the London School of Medicine for Women. Unnatural deaths. Murders. The first known victim is recognized by Haley Higgins, a third-year pathology ...

  • Murder at Kensington Gardens

    A Ginger Gold Mystery - 6

    "Clever and entertaining, you'll love this charming Golden Age mystery series. And the fashion is to die for!" - Molly C. Quinn, actress, Castle Murder's not a walk in the park . . .War widow fashionista, Ginger Gold, makes a gruesome discovery whi...

  • Murder at St. George's Church

    A Ginger Gold Mystery - 7

    Weddings can be murder

    Romance is in the air for the delightful Reverend Oliver Hill. Unfortunately, the choir rehearsal for the wedding ends abruptly with the sudden and disturbing appearance of a body.

    War widow fashionista Ginger Go...

  • Murder Aboard the Flying Scotsman

    A Ginger Gold Mystery - 8

    Mayhem All Aboard!

    One blustery day in October of 1924, newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. Basil Reed travel aboard the recently christened Flying Scotsman, a high-speed steam engine train that travels from London to Edinburgh, for their honeymoon. With...

  • Death at the Tavern

    A Higgins & Hawke Mystery - 1

    Death by Rum Running. . . 

    When a man is found dead at the Bell in Hand Tavern on Union Street, pathologist Dr. Haley Higgins and investigative reporter Samantha Hawke are both working the case. They want the same thing ~ to catch a kil...



  • Death on the Tower

    A Higgins & Hawke Mystery - 2

    Death by Treason . . .

    When the body of a British National is found at the base of the common house tower in Boston, assistant medical examiner, Dr. Haley Higgins has no reason to believe it wasn’t suicide.

    That is unti...

  • Murder at the Boat Club

    A Ginger Gold Mystery - 9

    Murder's a Bad Stroke of Luck!

    River Thames boat races between the London University colleges are popular events, and Mrs. Ginger Reed is excited to attend for the first time, especially since the son of a good friend of her new husband, Chi...

  • Living in Starlight

    A Light & Love Sweet Romance - 1.5

    Belle gets the best Christmas present ever, a man in uniform!

    Ian is a soldier home on leave. Neither of them has any idea how good it will feel to fall in love or how hard it will be to say goodbye.

    Anna is spending the holidays ...

  • Sing Me a Love Song

    A Light & Love Sweet Romance - 1

    Katja Stoltz is used to tough times -- an abusive stepfather, life on the streets, a musical dream that keeps shattering -- but it’s hard to compete with the ghost in Micah Sturm’s mysterious closet.

    The Baroque beauty of Dresden Germa...

  • In Light of Us

    A Light & Love Sweet Romance - 3

    Gabriele Baumann-Smith is deliriously in love with her young husband Lennon.

    Except, it turns out that Lennon Smith isn't his real name. In fact, he's full of secrets: a cottage on the southern British coast, an old girlfriend and... an iden...

  • Murder on Eaton Square

    A Ginger Gold Mystery - 10

    Murder's Bad Karma. . .

    Life couldn't be better on Eaton Square Gardens where the most prestigious families lived, until one of their own dies and it's murder.

    Ginger and Basil are on the case, but it's not a simple glass of bubbly fiz...

  • Your Love is Sweet

    A Light & Love Sweet Romance - 2

    Singer songwriter Eva Baumann has a celebrity crush on Sebastian Weiss. He's perfect to love because there was no way they could ever be a thing. She's a nobody. He's a heartthrob. Hiding an infatuation is easy for her because, since her accident,...

  • Six Merry Little Murders

  • Murder by Plum Pudding

    A Ginger Gold Mystery - 11

    Murder à la mode!

    There's nothing more fun than a festive holiday dinner party and Ginger Reed, the former Lady Gold, has Hartigan House decorated and the gramophone playing. Dressed in her finest Parisian low-waisted gown, feather-topped t...

  • Murder on Fleet Street

    A Ginger Gold Mystery - 12

    Murder's a Deadly Secret!Mrs. Ginger Reed--the former Lady Gold--thought her past was dead and buried, but when the mysterious death of a British secret service agent threatens to expose her own Great War secrets, she's faced with an unimaginable dil...



  • Death on Hanover

    A Higgins & Hawke Mystery - 3

    Death by design. . .Investigative reporter Sam Hawke, alias Mrs. Samantha Rosenbaum, is the first on the scene—what luck!—when a body is found in the yard of St. Stephen's Church on Hanover Street in Boston.Dr. Haley Higgins, the assistan...

  • Murder at High Tide

    A Rosa Reed Mystery - 1

    Murder's all wet! It's 1956 and WPC (Woman Police Constable) Rosa Reed has left her groom at the altar in London. Time spent with her American cousins in Santa Bonita, California is exactly what she needs to get back on her feet, though the last thin...

  • Murder on the Boardwalk

    A Rosa Reed Mystery - 2

    Murder's such a shock!When Rosa Reed—aka WPC Reed of the Metropolitan Police—and her cousin Gloria decide to spend a fun-filled afternoon in 1956 at the fair on the boardwalk in Santa Bonita, California, they're in for a shocking ...

  • Lady Gold Investigates

    A Ginger Gold Mystery

    Ginger Gold has opened her own private investigation office! This short story companion series to Ginger Gold Mysteries has the clever Mrs. Ginger Reed, aka Lady Gold, and her adventurous sister-in-law Felicia taking on clients who've got all sorts o...

  • Lady Gold Investigates Volume 2

    A Ginger Gold Mystery

    Lady Gold Takes The Case!Join Mrs. Ginger Reed~aka Lady Gold, her adventurous sister-in-law Felicia, and her curious dog Boss, as they take these new challenging puzzles. Lady Gold Investigates Volume Two presents The Case of the Recipe Robbery ...

  • Murder at the Bomb Shelter

    A Rosa Reed Mystery - 3

    Murder's a blast!Rosa Reed's holiday with the Forester Family in Santa Bonita has turned into an extended stay, and Rosa decides to make use of her Metropolitan Police training and sets up a private investigative business ~ just like her mother! But ...

  • The Wedding of Ginger & Basil

    A Ginger Gold Mystery - 12.5

    For fans of Ginger Gold and Basil Reed!!This is the wedding you've been waiting for! The bride and groom prepare for their big day and, of course, things don't go exactly as planned. Told from the alternating points of view of many of the beloved cha...

  • Murder at Brighton Beach

    A Ginger Gold Mystery - 13

    Clever and entertaining, you'll love this charming Golden Age mystery series. And the fashion is to die for! - Molly C. Quinn, actress, Castle Murder's a Beach! Seaside at Brighton, a family holiday turns deadly. After Ginger and Basil and their crew...

  • Murder on Location

    A Rosa Reed Mystery - 4

    Murder's a wrap!Private Investigator Rosa Reed has finally accepted that her girlhood romance with Detective Miguel Belmonte has no hope of being rekindled, but when his actress girlfriend gets embroiled in a murder on her movie set, it's more than a...

  • Murder and Rock 'n Roll

    A Rosa Reed Mystery - 5

    Murder is a hit! It's the summer of 1956 and Private Investigator Rosa Reed (former Woman Police Constable from the London Metropolitan Police) attends her first rock and roll concert featuring the young and upcoming music sensation Elvis Presley. Th...



  • Murder in Hyde Park

    A Ginger Gold Mystery - 14

    Murder's a fashion faux pas. . .The summer of 1926 brings high fashion to Hyde Park. Ginger's Regent Street dress shop, Feathers & Flair, is a major sponsor, and when top designer Coco Chanel makes an appearance, the London fashion scene lights up.Un...

  • Murder at the Races

    A Rosa Reed Mystery - 6

    Murder is a wreck!Rosa Reed attends a charity stock car race in Santa Bonita and expects to have an exhilarating time shared with family and friends. That ends when a driver inexplicably crashes into a guard rail and dies. When local assistant medica...

  • Murder at the Royal Albert Hall

    A Ginger Gold Mystery - 15

    Murder's a pain in the aria!Nothing ruins a night at the opera faster than a duchess falling to her death. Mrs. Ginger Reed, also known by some as Lady Gold, is at the Royal Albert Hall with her husband, Basil Reed, a chief inspector at Scotland Yard...

  • Murder at the Dude Ranch

    A Rosa Reed Mystery - 7

    Murder's a wild ride!Rosa Reed takes a much needed break from her thriving private investigative work by joining her cousin Clarence and Aunt Louisa for a weekend getaway at the Black Stallion Dude Ranch near Santa Bonita, California. It's the beginn...

  • Murder in Belgravia

    A Ginger Gold Mystery - 16

    Murder's a piece of cake!Wedding bells are ringing in Belgravia, and Ginger couldn't be happier to attend the nuptials of Felicia Gold and Lord Davenport-Witt. If only she could put her mind at ease about the things she knew about the groom's past. W...

  • Murder in London

    A Rosa Reed Mystery - 8

    Murder's a trip!It's early 1957, and Rosa Reed and her new beau Detective Miguel Belmonte fly from California to London to follow up on the cold case: the murder of Rosa's good friend Lady Vivien Everleigh.The investigation is complicated, if not...

  • Murder on Mallowan Court

    A Ginger Gold Mystery - 17

    Murder's afoot!As Mrs. Ginger Reed also known as Lady Gold waits impatiently for the coming of her baby, new neighbours move onto Mallowan Court. The Foote family is very much like Ginger's own, if not the mirror opposite: Mr. and Mrs. Foote an unhap...

  • Murder at the Fiesta

    A Rosa Reed Mystery - 9

    Murder's a bash!When Rosa Reed attends a birthday party in the spring of 1957, the Mexican fiesta turns deadly. It wasn't how Rosa wanted to celebrate with Detective Miguel Belmonte, nor how she hoped to be introduced to his large complicated family....

  • Murder at the Savoy

    A Ginger Gold Mystery - 18

    Murder's frightfully unlucky!Mrs. Ginger Reed, known also as Lady Gold, settles into homelife with her husband Chief Inspector Basil Reed, son Scout and newborn daughter Rosa, but when an opportunity to join a dinner party at the renowned Savoy Hotel...

  • Murder at the Circus

    A Ginger Gold Mystery - 19

    Murder's a spectacle!When Ginger Reed aka Lady Gold and Basil Reed's son Scout runs away to join the circus, it's not all fun and games. As a disgruntled teen unhappy at boarding school, Scout intends to work with his cousin Marvin, newly (and dishon...

  • Murder at the Boxing Club

    A Ginger Gold Mystery - 20

    Murder's a knockout!Despite her misgivings and general distaste for fighting sports, Mrs. Ginger Reed, also known as Lady Gold, agrees to attend a boxing match to support her adopted son's cousin, a street fighter who's quickly risen in the ranks.But...

  • Murder at the Weddings

    A Rosa Reed Mystery - 10

    Seeing double is murder! If one wedding is good, a double wedding is better! Rosa and Miguel agree that walking down the aisle with Bill and Carlotta solves a lot of social and familial problems, but the drama is notched up when a dead body arri...

  • Murder in France

    A Ginger Gold Mystery - 21

    Murder is so sang-froid! When the Reed family-temporarily exiled to France-is once again safe, Ginger decides to turn the event into a much needed holiday. And the absolute cake is Ginger's reunion with her American friend Haley Higgins, who is worki...

  • Murder at Yuletide

    A Ginger Gold Mystery - 22

    Have Yourself a Merry Little MurderClive Pippins, Lady Ginger Gold's beloved, elderly butler is apparently Christmas shopping when a body is found. To the shock of everyone in Ginger's household, the victim is the spinster cousin Pippins worked for d...

  • Murder at Madame Tussaud's

    A Ginger Gold Mystery - 23

    Murder's a pain in the neck!Madame Tussauds, London's extravagant wax museum, reopens in 1928 to much fanfare. The horrific fire of '25, which had destroyed the wax figurines of famous and sometimes infamous characters, was news of the past. Ginger R...

  • Death by Dancing

    A Higgins & Hawke Mystery - 4

    Death's a jig!When a brutal dance marathon in the suburbs of Boston in 1932 turns deadly, Dr. Haley Higgins is surprised to discover the deceased is the widow of a man whose body still lies in the cold cabinets of her morgue. She has reasons to belie...

  • Murder at Mallowan Court

    Murder's afoot! As Mrs. Ginger Reed also known as Lady Gold waits impatiently for the coming of her baby, new neighbours move onto Mallowan Court. The Foote family is very much like Ginger's own, if not the mirror opposite: Mr. and Mrs. Foote an unha...

  • Murder at St Paul's Cathedral

    Family secrets are murder! When Ginger's former sister-in-law Felicia, now Lady Davenport-Witt, first received a mysterious note in the post, she dismissed it as coming from a nuisance writer. These things were known to happen to those who enjoyed so...

  • The Wedding of Ginger and Basil

    Clever and entertaining, you'll love this charming Golden Age mystery series. And the fashion is to die for! - Molly C. Quinn, actress, CastleFor fans of Ginger Gold and Basil Reed - this is the wedding you've been waiting for! The bride and groom pr...

  • Death On Tremont Row

    Death isn't an act!It's been five years since Haley Higgins moved back from London to Boston, and in that time she's become a doctor of pathology and the assistant pathologist at the Boston City Morgue. In her position, she often assists in the solvi...

  • Murder at Dude Ranch

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    Murder's a wild ride!Rosa Reed takes a much needed break from her thriving private investigative work by joining her cousin Clarence and Aunt Louisa for a weekend getaway at the Black Stallion Dude Ranch near Santa Bonita, California. It's the beginn...

  • Murder on the Dude Ranch

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    Murder's a wild ride!Rosa Reed takes a much needed break from her thriving private investigative work by joining her cousin Clarence and Aunt Louisa for a weekend getaway at the Black Stallion Dude Ranch near Santa Bonita, California. It's the beginn...

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Lee Strauss has published 71 books.

Lee Strauss does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Death On Tremont Row, was published in January 2024.

The first book by Lee Strauss, Perception, was published in August 2012.

Yes. Lee Strauss has 9 series.
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