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      Simon Brett worked as a producer in radio and television before taking up writing full-time. He was awarded an OBE in the 2016 New Year’s Honours ‘for services to literature’ and also was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2014 he won the CWA’s prestigious Diamond Dagger for an outstanding body of work.

       simonbrett.com

       Also by Simon Brett

      The Fethering Mysteries The Body on the Beach The Torso in The Town Murder in the Museum The Hanging in the Hotel The Witness at the Wedding The Stabbing in the Stables Death Under the Dryer Blood at the Bookies The Poisoning in the Pub The Shooting in the Shop Bones Under the Beach Hut Guns in the Gallery Corpse on the Court The Strangling on the Stage The Tomb in Turkey The Killing in the Cafe The Liar in The Library

      The Charles Paris Theatrical Series Dead Room Farce A Decent Interval The Cinderella Killer

      The Mrs Pargeter Mysteries Mrs Pargeter’s Point of Honour Mrs Pargeter’s Principle Mrs Pargeter’s Public Relations

      Short stories A Box of Tricks Crime Writers and Other Animals

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      First published in Great Britain, the USA and Canada in 2019

       by Black Thorn, an imprint of Canongate Books Ltd,

       14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE

      This digital edition first published in 2019 by Black Thorn, an imprint of Canongate Books

      First published in 2001 by Macmillan Publishers Ltd,

       Pan Macmillan, 20 New Wharf Road, London N1 9RR

      blackthornbooks.com

      Copyright © Simon Brett, 2001

      The moral right of the author has been asserted

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Except where actual historical events and characters are being described for the storyline of this novel, all situations in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is purely coincidental

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library

      eISBN 978 1 78689 773 2

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      Contents

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Chapter 25

       Chapter 26

       Chapter 27

       Chapter 28

       Chapter 29

       Chapter 30

       Chapter 31

       Chapter 32

       Chapter 33

       Chapter 34

       Chapter 35

       Chapter 36

       Chapter 37

       Chapter 38

       Chapter 39

       Chapter 40

       Chapter 41

       Chapter 42

       Chapter 43

       Chapter 44

       Chapter 45

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