A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia de Luce Novel

A Red Herring Without Mustard is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2011 by Alan Bradley

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

DELACORTE PRESS is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bradley, C. Alan

A red herring without mustard : a Flavia de Luce novel / Alan Bradley.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-440-33986-1

1. Girls—England—Fiction. 2. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. I. Title.

PR9199.4.B7324R43 2011

813′.6–dc22

2010042029

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