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Authors: Katherine Hall Page
BOUT THE
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UTHOR
KATHERINE HALL PAGE
is the author of twenty-two previous Faith Fairchild mysteries, the first of which received the Agatha Award for best first mystery.
The Body in the Snowdrift
was honored with the Agatha Award for best novel of 2006. Page also won an Agatha for her short story “The Would-Be Widower.” The recipient of the Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement, she has also been nominated for the Edgar, the Mary Higgins Clark, the Maine Literary, and the Macavity Awards. She lives in Massachusetts and Maine with her husband.
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LSO BY
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ATHERINE
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ALL
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The Faith Fairchild Mysteries
The Body in the Basement
The Body in the Cast
The Body in the Vestibule
The Body in the Bouillon
The Body in the Kelp
The Body in the Belfry
Short Fiction
REDITS
Cover design by Emin Mancheril
Cover Photograph © Johanna Rees/Arcangel Images
Title page art © by Serge Skiba/Shutterstock, Inc.
OPYRIGHT
Epigraph from
THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
by C. S. Lewis © copyright C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd.
Grateful acknowledgment is made by the publisher for permission to reprint “The Queens Came Late” by Norma Farber. Copyright © by Thomas Farber. Used by permission. Thanks to Dr. Daniel Pinkham, Director of Music, King's Chapel, Boston, for providing me with the information about the poem, originally a choral lyric.
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE BODY IN THE WARDROBE
. Copyright © 2016 by Katherine Hall Page. 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, 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.
FIRST EDITION
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EPub Edition April 2016 ISBN 9780062439550
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