These seven short stories by well-known writers such as Dashiel Hammett Patricia Highsmith
and Nancy Pickard will keep you on the edge of your seat. Classics modern fiction
non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has
seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR.br br Curtis Colt didn't kill that liquor store
woman and that's a fact. It's not right that he should have to ride the lightning - that's
what prisoners call dying in the electric chair. Curtis doesn't belong in it and I can prove
it.' But can Curtis's girlfriend prove it? Murder has undoubtedly been done and if Curtis
doesn't ride the lightning for it then who will? These seven short stories by well-known
writers such as Dashiel Hammett Patricia Highsmith and Nancy Pickard will keep you on the
edge of your seat.br br CEFR B2 C1br Word count 26 500
