Ashworth Hall

A Fawcett Book

Published by The Random House Publishing Group

Copyright © 1997 by Anne Perry

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Fawcett Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 97-97089

eISBN: 978-0-307-76767-7

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