The Poisoned Island (47 page)

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2013 by Lloyd Shepherd

Previously published in 2013 in Great Britain by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd.

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First Washington Square Press trade paperback edition January 2014

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Shepherd, Lloyd.

The Poisoned Island : a novel / by Lloyd Shepherd. — First Washington Square Press trade paperback edition.

pages cm

1. Police—England—London—Fiction. 2. Serial murders—Fiction. 3. London (England)—History—19th century—Fiction. 4. Historical fiction. 5. Suspense fiction. I. Title.

PR6119.H464P65 2014

823′.92—dc23

2013023869

ISBN 978-1-4767-1286-4

ISBN 978-1-4767-1287-1 (ebook)