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Fatal Truth

book by Robin Burcell

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ29098002 ↗
Source-derived summary

Fatal Truth is a book written by Robin Burcell and published by Avon Books (now owned by HarperCollins) on 30 July 2002, which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original in 2003.

Editorial summary

“Fatal Truth” enters the record as book by Robin Burcell. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fatal, Truth and book can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2002-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Fatal, Truth and book.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Fatal Truth” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Fatal, Truth and book provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q29098002. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002 and 2003.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Tracing reception history
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Fatal Truth”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Fatal Truth primary sources, Fatal Truth archive and Fatal research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Fatal Truth”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Fatal Truth” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.