Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie 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 © 2014 by American Artist, Inc.

Illustrations copyright © 2014 by Lee Gildea, Jr.

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Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Brown, Rita Mae.

Let sleeping dogs lie : a novel / Rita Mae Brown ;

illustrated by Lee Gildea, Jr.—First edition.

pages ; cm

ISBN 978-0-553-39262-3 (hardcover : acid-free paper—ISBN 978-0-553-39263-0 (ebook) 1. Arnold, Jane (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. 3. Fox hunting—Fiction. 4. Virginia—Fiction. I. Gildea, Lee, Jr., illustrator. II. Title.

PS3552.R698L48 2014

813’.54—dc23 2014030600

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