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She realized that it was Wednesday and that she'd forgotten to buy that week's copy of the Beano from her usual newsagent. She had no choice but to go to the dingy kiosk in the centre to get it. Afterwards she stood and looked again at the True Detective magazines on the shelf. The woman on the front didn't look like a detective. She was wearing a trilby and raincoat... but nothing else. She looked like someone from a Two Ronnies sketch. Kate didn't like it.
She realized it was Wednesday and she'd forgotten to buy that week's copy of the Beano from her usual newsagent. She had no choice but to go to the dingy kiosk in the center to get it. Afterward she stood and looked again at a current True Detective magazine on the shelf. The woman on the front didn't look like a detective. She was wearing a fedora and a raincoat... but nothing else. She looked like someone from a Benny Hill sketch. Kate didn't like it.






After someone has murdered his family, a toddler is taken in and lovingly raised by the inhabitants of an old graveyard. "Bod" is to stay there until he is grown and it's safe for him to go and live in the outside world (because his family's murderer is still out there and wants to finish the job).
Book #4, Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror by Chris Priestley, was not on my initial list, but after reading Cornflower's great review I immediately ordered a copy for myself.
Book #5, Coraline by Neil Gaiman, was not on my initial list either, but I had heard good things about it and when I saw the cover of the Subterranean Press edition on Quixotic's blog I fell in love. (Yes, I know it looks creepy and corpse-y, but the double image reminds me of a playing card, and I collect playing cards.) After some deliberation (because £30 is rather expensive for a book you don't even know you'll like) I ordered it from Amazon UK and waited. And kept waiting. When two weeks after the estimated arrival date the book still had not arrived I ended up getting a refund rather than a replacement, because it had gone out of stock in the meantime. I couldn't find it in Canada either (to console myself I bought The Graveyard Book there) and eventually bought a very good second-hand copy for about half the price from an American seller via Amazon UK. I thought I wouldn't get it in time to read for the challenge, but it arrived in less than a week, right after I finished Uncle Montague, so perfect timing.