Southampton Row

A Ballantine Book

The Ballantine Publishing Group

Copyright © 2002 by Anne Perry

All rights reserved under International

and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published

in the United States by The Ballantine Publishing Group, a division of

Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada

by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Ballantine is a registered trademark and the Ballantine colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Perry, Anne.

Southampton Row / Anne Perry.— 1st ed.

p. cm.

1. Pitt, Charlotte (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Women detectives—

England—London—Fiction. 3. Pitt, Thomas (Fictitious character)—Fiction.

4. Police—England—London—Fiction. 5. London (England)—Fiction.

6. Police spouses—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6066.E693 S68 2002

823′.914—dc21 2001052664

eISBN: 978-0-345-45502-4

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