A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs

A Warner Book

First published in Great Britain in 1965 by William Collins, Sons & Co. Ltd

This edition published by Warner Books in 2000

Copyright © Ellis Peters 1965

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ISBN 0 7515 3098 0

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