The Book of the Dead

Copyright

Copyright © 2009 QI Ltd.

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Crown Publishers,

an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of

Random House, Inc., New York.

www.crownpublishing.com

Crown and the Crown colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Originally published in Great Britain as The QI Book of the Dead by Faber and Faber Ltd, London, in 2009.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mitchinson, John, 1963–

The book of the dead / John Mitchinson & John Lloyd.—1st ed.

p. cm.

Originally published: London : Faber and Faber, 2009.

1. Biography—Anecdotes. 2. Anecdotes. I. Lloyd, John, 1951– II. Title.

CT109.M58 2010

920—dc22 2010004609

eISBN: 978-0-307-71641-5

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