Mourn Not Your Dead

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

Copyright © 1996 by Deborah Crombie

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Crombie, Deborah.

Mourn not your dead: a Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James crime novel/Deborah Crombie.

p. cm.

1. Kincaid, Duncan (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. James, Gemma (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 3. Police—England—Yorkshire Dales—Fiction. 4. Policewomen—England—Yorkshire Dales—Fiction. 5. Yorkshire Dales (England)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3553.R5378M6 1996

813’.54—dc20 95-26166 CIP

ISBN 0-684-80131-0

eISBN 978-1-4516-1763-4