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by Laurie R. King


  (I ought perhaps to point out that none of my maps shows the precise location of the place Miss Russell calls “Khanpur.” Nor have I found it possible, after all this time, to determine which of the northern princely states she might have meant. An editor’s task is never easy.)

  And as always, I thank my husband, Noel King, in this case for introducing me to his mad homeland, and for providing Russell with her Hindustani curses.

  The Game may be read as a humble and profoundly felt homage to Rudyard Kipling’s Kim, one of the great novels of the English language. If you, the reader, do not know the book, please do not delay that acquaintance. If you read it in childhood and remember it as a juvenile adventure, may I suggest another read? Kim is a book for any age.

  And for those skeptics in the audience, yes, Kipling did indeed begin to formulate the idea of Kim during that precise period when Sherlock Holmes was in India.

  About the Author

  LAURIE R. KING became the first novelist since Patricia Cornwell to win prizes for Best First Crime Novel on both sides of the Atlantic with the publication of her debut thriller, A Grave Talent. She is the bestselling author of four contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli, seven Mary Russell mysteries, and the bestselling novels A Darker Place and Folly. She lives in northern California.

  Other Mystery Novels by

  LAURIE R. KING

  Mary Russell Novels

  The Beekeeper’s Apprentice

  A Monstrous Regiment of Women

  A Letter of Mary

  The Moor

  O Jerusalem

  Justice Hall

  Kate Martinelli Novels

  A Grave Talent

  To Play the Fool

  With Child

  Night Work

  And

  A Darker Place

  Folly

  Keeping Watch

  THE GAME

  A Bantam Book / March 2004

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