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About the Author
Frances Brody is the author of seven mysteries featuring Kate Shackleton as well as many stories and plays for BBC Radio, scripts for television and four sagas, one of which won the HarperCollins Elizabeth Elgin Award. Her stage plays have been toured by several theatre companies and produced at Manchester Library Theatre, the Gate and Nottingham Playhouse, and Jehad was nominated for a Time Out Award.
Frances lived in New York for a time before studying at Ruskin College, Oxford, and reading English Literature and History at York University. She has taught in colleges, and on writing courses for the Arvon Foundation. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Also by Frances Brody
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A Medal for Murder
Murder in the Afternoon
A Woman Unknown
Murder on a Summer’s Day
Death of an Avid Reader
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty nine
Chapter Thirty
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Also by Frances Brody
Copyright
A THOMAS DUNNE BOOK FOR MINOTAUR BOOKS.
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A DEATH IN THE DALES. Copyright © 2015 by Frances McNeil. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Brody, Frances, author.
Title: A death in the dales / Frances Brody.
Description: First U.S. edition. | New York : Minotaur Books, 2017. | Series: A Kate Shackleton mystery ; 7
Identifiers: LCCN 2016043770| ISBN 9781250098825 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781250098849 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Women private investigators—England—Fiction. | Murder—Investigation—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional British. | FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths. | FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction.
Classification: LCC PR6113.C577 D425 2017 | DDC 823/.92—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016043770
eISBN 978-1-250-09884-9
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First published in Great Britain by Piatkus, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, an Hachette UK company
First U.S. Edition: February 2017