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Sat 11 Nov 2002From majestic Colorado to the Cambridgeshire FensCRIME FILE: Michael Painter reviews this weeks collection of  crime fiction.In the bleak landscape of the Cambridgeshire Fens, a man is marooned in a lonely farmhouse. The area is flooded, the tidewaters creeping up and up, as the man, Philip Dryden, a local journalist, awaits the arrival of a murderer.