Buckingham Palace Gardens

Buckingham Palace Gardens 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 © 2008 by Anne Perry

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Perry, Anne.

Buckingham Palace gardens : a novel / Anne Perry.

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1. Pitt, Thomas (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Prostitutes—Crimes against—Fiction. 3. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. 4. London (England)—Fiction. 5. Great Britain—History—Victoria, 1837–1901—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6066.E693B83 2008

823'.914—dc22 2007042767

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