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Authors: Robert Barnard
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R
OBERT
B
ARNARD
was born in Essex. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and after completing his degree he taught English at universities in Australia and Norway, where he completed his doctorate on Dickens. He returned to England to become a full-time writer and now lives in Leeds with his wife Louise, cat Durdles and dog Peggotty. He has been awarded both the prestigious CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger, in recognition of a lifetime’s achievement in crime writing, as well as the CWA prize for the best short story of the year.
Sheer Torture
The Mistress of Alderley
A Cry from the Dark
The Graveyard Position
Dying Flames
A Fall from Grace
Last Post
The Killings on Jubilee Terrace
A Stranger in the Family
A Mansion and its Murder
Rogue’s Gallery (short story collection)
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Hardback published in Great Britain in 2011.
Paperback edition published in 2012.
This ebook edition first published in 2012.
Copyright © 1998 by R
OBERT
B
ARNARD
The right of R
OBERT
B
ARNARD
to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
This novel was previously published in the US under the pseudonym Bernard Bastable.
All characters and events in this publication other than those clearly in the public domain are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 978–0–7490–1181–9
