First steps with Feynman diagrams

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Draw all the fourth-order (four vertex) diagrams for Compton scattering. (There are 17 of them; disconnected diagrams and "tadpoles"--photon lines terminating in an electron loop--don't count.)
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This is problem 2.3 in Griffiths' Introducion to Elementary Particles. I have Griffiths' solutions, otherwise I would be completely lost. Nonetheless, I tried to come up with a solution of my own first. I found only one possibility, which looked ok to me, but it is not even among the 17 ones that Griffiths shows. Here is mine:

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What is wrong with it?
 
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It has been a while for me, but I also don't see what's wrong with it. Every vertex should contain two electron lines and one photon line. But I also haven't seen all of the 17 diagrams, so maybe one of them is topologically the same as the one you drew?
 
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Your drawing is diagram (e).
Yes, that is mine. I just cannot find anything resembling that one among Griffiths' diagrams. Or could it perhaps be this one:
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