An Impartial Witness

by Charles Todd

  AN IMPARTIAL WITNESS. Copyright © 2010 by Charles Todd. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  FIRST EDITION

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Todd, Charles.

  An impartial witness / Charles Todd.—1st ed.

  p. cm.

  Sequel to : A duty to the dead.

  ISBN 978-0-06-179178-9 (hardcover)

  1. Nurses—England—Fiction. 2. World War, 1914–1918—England—Fiction. I. Title.

  PS3570.O37I67 2010

  813'.54—dc22

  2009053274

  EPub Edition © July 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-200883-1

  10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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