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Authors: Brittany Cavallaro

BOOK: A Study in Charlotte

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

First of all, so many thanks to my wonderful editor, Anica Rissi, for her keen eyes and edits and her belief in this book. I am so indebted to you. Thanks too to Alexandra Arnold and everyone else at Katherine Tegen Books and HarperCollins. I feel so incredibly lucky to be a Katherine Tegen author.

To Lana Popovic, my amazing agent, editor, and friendâyou have encouraged me every single step of the way. I know for sure this wouldn't be a book without you. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for taking a chance on me.

Many thanks to Terra Chalberg for championing this book abroad and to everyone else at Chalberg and Sussman, wonder agency.

Thank you to my friends Chloe Benjamin, Rebecca Dunham, Rebecca Hazelton, Emily Temple, and Kit Williamson for being amazing, encouraging readers, and to my professors Liam Callanan and Judy Mitchell, who told me I could. And to Ted Martin, for his endless patience for discussing Sherlockiana with me.

I'm deeply indebted to William S. Baring-Gould for his
Sherlock Holmes scholarshipâhis
Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street
was invaluable, and I've littered this novel with loving reference to his work. Endless thanks to Leslie Klinger; his
New Annotated Sherlock Holmes
has
sat dog-eared on my desk for the last two years. I'm greatly indebted, too, to all the other scholars and writers who have played the Game before me.

Thanks to my parents, for being my biggest champions from day one. To my grandfather, for giving us the Holmes stories in the first place. Thanks and love to Chase, for his love and patience while I've filled my hours and covered our walls with this book. I never thought I'd find somebody like you. I am so lucky I did.

And finally, and most importantly, thanks to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for giving us all Holmes and Watson in the first place. This is, more than anything, a work written for love of them.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Photo by Kit Williamson

BRITTANY CAVALLARO
is a poet, fiction writer, and old-school Sherlockian. She is the author of the poetry collection
Girl-King
and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She earned her BA in literature from Middlebury College and her MFA in poetry from the University of WisconsinâMadison. Currently, she's a PhD candidate in English literature at the University of WisconsinâMilwaukee. She lives in Wisconsin with her husband, cat, and collection of deerstalker caps. Find her at her website,
www.brittanycavallaro.com
, or on Twitter @skippingstones.

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CREDITS

Cover design by Katie Fitch

COPYRIGHT

Katherine Tegen Books is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

A STUDY IN CHARLOTTE
. Copyright Â© 2016 by Brittany Cavallaro. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cavallaro, Brittany.

Â Â Â A study in Charlotte / Brittany Cavallaro. â First edition.

Â Â Â Â Â Â pagesÂ Â cm

Â Â Â Summary: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson descendants, Charlotte and Jamie, students at a Connecticut boarding school, team up to solve a murder mystery.

Â Â Â ISBN 978-0-06-239890-1 (hardback)

Â Â Â EPub Edition Â© February 2016 ISBN 9780062398932

Â Â Â [1. Mystery and detective stories. 2. MurderâFiction. 3. LoveâFiction. 4. Boarding schoolsâFiction. 5. SchoolsâFiction.] I. Title.

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