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  “We’d never have got a conviction,” he repeated. “But she did it very nicely, didn’t she? Got her freedom, her boyfriend and the whole of the property. Beats a divorce settlement anytime! He handed himself to her on a plate, did Gerry Porter. On a ruddy plate!”

  BY THE SAME AUTHOR

  The Bad Samaritan

  The Masters of the House

  A Hovering of Vultures

  A Fatal Attachment

  A Scandal in Belgravia

  A City of Strangers

  Death of a Salesperson

  Death and the Chaste Apprentice

  At Death’s Door

  The Skeleton in the Grass

  The Cherry Blossom Corpse

  Bodies

  Political Suicide

  Fete Fatale

  Out of the Blackout

  Corpse in a Gilded Cage

  School for Murder

  The Case of the Missing Bronte

  A Little Local Murder

  Death and the Princess

  Death by Sheer Torture

  Death in a Cold Climate

  Death of a Perfect Mother

  Death of a Literary Widow

  Death of a Mystery Writer

  Blood Brotherhood

  Death on the High C’s

  Death of an Old Goat

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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 1996 by Robert Barnard

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  1996 Robert Barnard—collection and introduction

  Robert Barnard 1990, 1991, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1986, 1995, 1987, 1988

  The following stories first appeared in the U.S. in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine: “Cupid’s Dart”; “The Habit of Widowhood”; “Post Mortem”; “Soldier, from the Wars Returning”; “My Son, My Son”; “The Stuff of Nightmares”; “Balmorality”; “Living with Jimmy”; “If Looks Could Kill”; “Reader, I Strangled Him”; “The Gentleman in the Lake”; “The Women at the Funeral”; “Perfect Honeymoon”; and “More Final Than Divorce”; “Happy Christmas” appeared in Ellery Queen’s Prime Crimes 4, and “Dog Television” in Malice Domestic II. “Called to Judgment” is here published for the first time.

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  ISBN: 1-4391-5737-5

  ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-5737-4

  ISBN-13: 978-1-4767-3725-6 (eBook)

 

 

 


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