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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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First Aladdin hardcover edition October 2017
Copyright © 2016 by H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), Oslo
English translation copyright © 2017 by Tara Chace
Originally published in Norway in 2016 as Kan Doktor Proktor redde jula? by H. Aschehoug & Co.
Published by arrangement with Salomonsson Agency
Illustration copyright © 2017 by Mike Lowery
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Designed by Karin Paprocki
Jacket designed by Karin Paprocki
Jacket illustrations copyright © 2017 by Mike Lowery
The text of this book was set in Perpetua Regular.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Nesbø, Jo, 1960- author. | Lowery, Mike, 1980- illustrator.
Title: Silent (but deadly) night / Jo Nesbø ; illustrated by Mike Lowery.
Description: First Aladdin hardcover edition. | New York : Aladdin, 2017.|
Series: Doctor Proctor’s fart powder ; 5 | Summary: Dr. Proctor, Nilly, and Lisa set out to find Santa and save Christmas after the king of Norway sells the rights to the holiday to money-hungry Mr. Thrane.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017007139 (print) | LCCN 2017025643 (eBook) |
Subjects: | CYAC: Christmas—Fiction. | Santa Claus—Fiction. | Inventors—Fiction. |
Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. | Flatulence—Fiction. | Norway—Fiction. | Humorous stories. |
BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories. | JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General. |
JUVENILE FICTION / Holidays & Celebrations / Christmas & Advent.
Classification: LCC PZ7.N43825 (eBook) | LCC PZ7.N43825 Sil 2017 (print)|DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017007139