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Автор Миранда Джеймс
MURDER PAST DUE
CLASSIFIED AS MURDER
FILE M FOR MURDER
OUT OF CIRCULATION
THE SILENCE OF THE LIBRARY
ARSENIC AND OLD BOOKS
NO CATS ALLOWED
TWELVE ANGRY LIBRARIANS
BLESS HER DEAD LITTLE HEART
DEAD WITH THE WIND
DIGGING UP THE DIRT
BERKLEY PRIME CRIME
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Copyright © 2017 by Dean James
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: James, Miranda, author.
Title: Twelve angry librarians / Miranda James.
Description: First edition. | New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2017. | Series:
Cat in the stacks mystery ; 8
Identifiers: LCCN 2016042276 (print) | LCCN 2016048829 (ebook) | ISBN
9780425277768 (hardback) | ISBN 9780698181991 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Librarians—Mississippi—Fiction. |
Libraries—Mississippi—Fiction. | Murder—Investigation—Fiction. |
BISAC: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3610.
A43 T93 2017 (print) | LCC PS3610. A43 (ebook) |DDC 813/. 6—dc23
First Edition: February 2017
Cover art by Dan Craig
Cover design by Lesley Worrell and Katie Anderson
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks as always to the usual suspects: my agent, Nancy Yost; and her associates: Sarah E. Younger, Natanya Wheeler, and Amy Rosenbaum for all they do; the team at Berkley: Michelle Vega, Bethany Blair, and Roxanne Jones for constant support and help in numerous ways; the art department for consistently beautiful covers; and the copyeditors who always work so hard to catch my mistakes and lapses in logic.
My dear friends Patricia Orr and Terry Farmer read and encouraged as the chapters popped up in their e-mail boxes, and I can never thank them enough for what they do.
Finally, special thanks to Patrick B. Kyle, PhD, DABCC, director of clinical chemistry and toxicology, at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, for graciously answering questions about poison that came to his e-mail inbox out of the blue. He is not responsible for any errors or misinterpretations that I have made based on his answers to my questions.
