The Grass Widow's Tale

A Macdonald Book

First published in Great Britain in 1968

by Collins Publishers Ltd

This edition published in 1991

by Macdonald & Co (Publishers) Ltd

London & Sydney

Copyright © 1968 Ellis Peters

The right of Ellis Peters to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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Member of BPCC Ltd.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Peters, Ellis 1913-

The Grass Widow’s Tale.

Rn: Edith Pargeter

I. Title

823.912 [F]

ISBN 0-356-19580-5

Macdonald & Co (Publishers) Ltd

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