SOURCE: "He Could Not Tell a Lie," in The New York Times Book Review, October 16, 1994, p. 7.
In the following review, Carroll assesses What I Lived For, finding that "the structure of this straightforward mystery is transformed into art of another order entirely, an exemplary work of moral investigation."
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