Up in Smoke

by Ross Pennie

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  Pennie, Ross, 1952–, author

  Up in smoke / Ross Pennie.

  “A Dr. Zol Szabo medical mystery”.

  ISBN 978-1-55022-967-7 (bound) / 978-1-77041-185-2 (pbk.)

  ALSO ISSUED AS: 978-1-77090-465-1 (PDF)

  978-1-77090-466-8 (ePub)

  I. Title.

  PS8631.E565U6 2013 C813’.6 C2013-902496-4

  Cover and text design: Tania Craan

  Cover image: Adam Hirons/Millennium Images UK

  Author photo: John Pegram

  The publication of Up in Smoke has been generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $157 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country, and by the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), an agency of the Government of Ontario, which last year funded 1,681 individual artists and 1,125 organizations in 216 communities across Ontario for a total of $52.8 million. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities, and the contribution of the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.