About the Author
SUSAN CRANDALL is the author of ten previous novels, including the national bestseller Whistling Past the Graveyard and Back Roads, winner of the RITA Award and two National Readers’ Choice Awards. She lives in Indiana and can be found on Facebook and Twitter or through her website, www.SusanCrandall.net.
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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First Gallery Books hardcover edition July 2015
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Interior design by Jaime Putorti
Jacket design by Laywan Kwan
Jacket background photograph © Shutterstock; airplanes by Martin Kotek, Pawel Sielecki, and Roman Nawrocki
Author photograph by Melissa A. Crandall
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The flying circus / Susan Crandall. — First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
pages ; cm
1. Stunt flying—Fiction. 2. Nineteen twenties—Fiction. 3. United States—Social life and customs—20th century—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3603.R375F59 2015
813'.6—dc23
2014043826
ISBN 978-1-4767-7217-2 (ebook)
Contents
Epigraph
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Readers Group Guide
Introduction
Questions and Topics for Discussion
Enhance Your Book Club
A Conversation with Susan Crandall
About the Author