Arsenic And Old Books

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Copyright © 2015 by Dean James.

“When Charlie Met Diesel” by Miranda James copyright © 2015 by Dean James.

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eBook ISBN: 978-0-698-14457-6

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

James, Miranda.

Arsenic and old books / Miranda James.—First edition.

pages cm.—(Cat in the stacks mystery ; 6)

ISBN 978-0-425-25729-6 (hardback)

1. Librarians—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3610.A43A88 2015

813'.6—dc23

2014037644

FIRST EDITION: February 2015

Cover illustration by Dan Craig.

Cover design by Lesley Worrell.

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

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