title: A Good Marine's Murder
author: David Corbett
description: Dave Corbett, retired from the United States Marine Corps as a full colonel in 1990. During his twenty-eight years of flying fighter jets, he commanded five organizations including a Harrier squadron, a Support Group, and a Marine Air Ground Task Force. He began writing professionally in 1986 for a regional magazine, Carolina Cruising. In 1994, Corbett began writing novels in several different venues. He spends his summers in northern Minnesota and winters in south Florida with his wife Donna.
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  # Contents
  
  
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  [Title Page](titlepage.xhtml)
  
  
  [Contents](contents.xhtml)
  
  
  [Copyright](front01.xhtml)
  
  
  [Diary of a Murderer](c01.xhtml)
  
  
  [The Origin of Life](c02.xhtml)
  
  
  [Missing Child](c03.xhtml)
  
  
  [The Writer](c04.xhtml)
  
  
  [Read More from Young-ha Kim](back01.xhtml)
  
  
  [About the Author](back02.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  First Mariner Books edition 2019
  
  
  Copyright © 2013 by Young-ha Kim
  
  
  English translation copyright © 2019 by Krys Lee
  
  
  All rights reserved
  
  
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  Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th
  Floor, New York, New York 10016.
  
  
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  _Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data_
  
  
  Names: Kim, Young-ha, 1968– author. | Lee, Krys, translator.
  
  
  Title: Diary of a murderer : and other stori