Goodly and Grave in a Deadly Case of Murder. Justine Windsor
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Название: Goodly and Grave in a Deadly Case of Murder

Автор: Justine Windsor

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Детская проза

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isbn: 9780008183578

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      First published in Great Britain by

      HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2017

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      Text copyright © Justine Windsor 2017

      Illustrations copyright © Becka Moor 2017

      All rights reserved.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008183561

      Ebook Edition © ISBN: 9780008183578

      Version: 2017-07-04

       For Charlie and Nikki

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Chapter Seven: Cockroach Crunch

       Chapter Eight: Uncle Ebenezer’s Quill

       Chapter Nine: The Emerald Eye

       Chapter Ten: A Very Precise Death

       Chapter Eleven: A Mouthful of Dust

       Chapter Twelve: Golems and Murder

       Chapter Thirteen: London Smog

       Chapter Fourteen: O’Brien’s Midnight Circus

       Chapter Fifteen: A Den of Iniquity

       Chapter Sixteen: The Poodle That Barked in the Night

       Chapter Seventeen: Lucy Cracks the Case

       Chapter Eighteen: The Real Jerome Wormwood

       Chapter Nineteen: No Choice

       Chapter Twenty: Meeting Mortimer Thorne

       Chapter Twenty-One: Stone and Earth

       Chapter Twenty-Two: A Pact or Two

       Acknowledgements

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       About the Publisher

       PROLOGUE

      The graveyard was silent and deserted. An owl hooted from the great oak tree that grew next to the church. A fox slunk stealthily between the headstones, perhaps hunting for voles or on its way to raid the vicar’s henhouse. When the church gate creaked open, the fox froze and listened intently, sniffing the night air. A man crept СКАЧАТЬ