Acceptable Loss

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

Copyright © 2011 by Anne Perry

All rights reserved.

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

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eISBN: 978-0-345-53030-1

Cover design: Kathleen DiGrado

Jacket painting: John Macvicar Anderson, A View of Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament, 1870 (© Christopher Wood Gallery, London/Bridgeman Art Library)

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