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Crime caper books with situational comedy

Even an ingenious scheme depends on practical arrangements that can fail. Situational comedy in a caper follows the effort to manage those failures, giving improvisation and ordinary inconvenience room beside the attraction of a clever criminal plan.

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Start with the job and the complication that makes it difficult. An amateur's predicament differs from a professional team adapting on the fly. The profiles help you judge whether the pleasure lies in elaborate planning, persistent trouble or the people trying to cope.

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