Dread Murder

by Gwendoline Butler

  THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS.

  An imprint of St. Martin’s Press.

  DREAD MURDER. Copyright © 2006 by Gwendoline Butler. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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  First published in Great Britain by Allison Busby Limited

  eISBN 9781466811973

  First eBook Edition : January 2012

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Butler, Gwendoline.

  Dread murder Gwendoline Butler.—1st U.S. ed.

  p. cm.

  ISBN-13: 978-0-312-36133-4 (alk. paper)

  ISBN-10: 0-312-36133-5 (alk. paper)

  1. Soldiers—Fiction. 2. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. 3. Great

  Britain—History—George IV, 1820—1830—Fiction. I. Title.

  PR6052.U813 D74 2007

  823’.914—dc22

  2006038766

  First U.S. Edition: April 2007