The Habit of Widowhood
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“We’d never have got a conviction,” he repeated. “But she did it very nicely, didn’t she? Got her freedom, her boyfriend and the whole of the property. Beats a divorce settlement anytime! He handed himself to her on a plate, did Gerry Porter. On a ruddy plate!”
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The Bad Samaritan
The Masters of the House
A Hovering of Vultures
A Fatal Attachment
A Scandal in Belgravia
A City of Strangers
Death of a Salesperson
Death and the Chaste Apprentice
At Death’s Door
The Skeleton in the Grass
The Cherry Blossom Corpse
Bodies
Political Suicide
Fete Fatale
Out of the Blackout
Corpse in a Gilded Cage
School for Murder
The Case of the Missing Bronte
A Little Local Murder
Death and the Princess
Death by Sheer Torture
Death in a Cold Climate
Death of a Perfect Mother
Death of a Literary Widow
Death of a Mystery Writer
Blood Brotherhood
Death on the High C’s
Death of an Old Goat
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 1996 by Robert Barnard
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1996 Robert Barnard—collection and introduction
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The following stories first appeared in the U.S. in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine: “Cupid’s Dart”; “The Habit of Widowhood”; “Post Mortem”; “Soldier, from the Wars Returning”; “My Son, My Son”; “The Stuff of Nightmares”; “Balmorality”; “Living with Jimmy”; “If Looks Could Kill”; “Reader, I Strangled Him”; “The Gentleman in the Lake”; “The Women at the Funeral”; “Perfect Honeymoon”; and “More Final Than Divorce”; “Happy Christmas” appeared in Ellery Queen’s Prime Crimes 4, and “Dog Television” in Malice Domestic II. “Called to Judgment” is here published for the first time.
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