Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Woodpeckers
Long ago in Greece, the legend runs, a terri ble monster called the Sphinx used to waylay travelers to ask them riddles: whoever could not answer these she killed, but the man who did answer them killed her and made an end of her riddling.
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