![]() The problem is that Mary swears that she doesn’t remember what happened the night that Dick died. And now, Charlie has mysteriously disappeared. Mary’s a good girl and Charlie’s a bad boy, and Dick’s dead. Charlie, it turns out, is a mechanic from the bad side of town. The cops thinks that Mary’s boyfriend, Charlie, murdered Dick because he got jealous over Mary and Dick going to the school dance. ![]() It turns out that one of her classmates, the wealthy Dick (and that does turn out to be an appropriate name) is dead. The book opens with Mary, a teenage girl, sitting in a police department. ![]() Just the title alone promised all sorts of morbid drama! Unfortunately, the book itself doesn’t really live up to the promise of that title. I was looking forward to reading Execution of Innocence. If Stine killed off four people in a book, Pike would probably kill off 8. In fact, his books were often a bit more macabre than even Stine’s. ![]() Stine, Christopher Pike was one of the kings of YA horror and suspense literature in the 1990s. I was super excited when I came across a copy of the 1997 Christopher Pike novel, Execution of Innocence, in my collection of used paperbacks. ![]()
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