In Competition No. 3339 you were invited to submit a crime story in sonnet form.
Poems that have the suggestion of a criminal act at their heart – Robert Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’, for example – were at the back of my mind when I set this challenge, and it attracted a terrific crop of entries.
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