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		GREATEST LITERATURE CONTEST #15 Thrillers and Chillers Name these exciting classics. Winners and answers below.
			1	Easy one to start: It's not Frankenstein, it's that other blood-curdling novel from the 19th century that filmmakers love to adapt. Think "creatures of the night".
			2	Considered by some the first modern espionage thriller, this early 20th-century novel of intrigue on the seas was written by an Irishman who was later executed for his political involvement.
			3	Changing sides during the height of the cold war is not so easy, especially when it's hard to tell who's on which side, in this 1960s espionage tale centering on Berlin.
			4	Part social commentary, part romance and part scary—this novel by one of three literary sisters helped create the genre of "women's novels" with strong, smart women as heroines.
			5	Could a person die from from having her entire body painted? She could in this modern spy thriller by the creator of the spy with a license to kill.
			6	This seminal thriller of a chase across Scotland and England was filmed by Alfred Hitchcock, among others, and the author became Governor-General of Canada.
			7	Another 19th-century favourite for Hollywood remakes—the classic split-personality story by the same author as #8.
			8	Same author, but quite a different early thriller, involving a young boy who is shanghaied by pirates but links up with a rebel hero for exciting adventures—in the Scottish Highlands again.
			9	It starts with a gem stolen from India and ends with the solving of a murder mystery in England, in what is often called the first detective novel.
			10	More like thrills and spills—think of chariot races in the movie versions. Set in Biblical times, the most popular of all American-written historical novels until Gone With the Wind.
		Winners are being notified now and will be posted here as soon as they are confirmed. Answers: 1. Dracula 2. The Riddle of the Sands 3. The Spy Who Came In From the Cold 4. Jane Eyre 5. Goldfinger 6. The Thirty-Nine Steps 7. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 8. Kidnapped 9. The Moonstone 10. Ben-Hur