Authors: The Companion
Ann Granger (32 page)
I shook my head and managed to retort with something of my usual briskness, ‘Whether she minds or not, she is in no position to object!’
‘Ah then,’ said Ben sounding more confident, ‘Would you object? To us walking out, I mean?’
I looked up then, full in his face. ‘No, Ben,’ I said, ‘I shouldn’t object. I think I should like it very much.’
FRAN VARDY CRIME NOVELS
Asking for Trouble
Keeping Bad Company
Running Scared
Risking It All
Watching Out
Mixing with Murder
Keeping Bad Company
Running Scared
Risking It All
Watching Out
Mixing with Murder
MITCHELL AND MARKBY CRIME NOVELS
Say It with Poison
A Season for Murder
Cold in the Earth
Murder Among Us
Where Old Bones Lie
A Fine Place for Death
Flowers for His Funeral
Candle for a Corpse
A Touch of Mortality
A Word After Dying
Call the Dead Again
Beneath These Stones
Shades of Murder
A Restless Evil
That Way Murder Lies
A Season for Murder
Cold in the Earth
Murder Among Us
Where Old Bones Lie
A Fine Place for Death
Flowers for His Funeral
Candle for a Corpse
A Touch of Mortality
A Word After Dying
Call the Dead Again
Beneath These Stones
Shades of Murder
A Restless Evil
That Way Murder Lies
All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
THE COMPANION. Copyright © 2006 by Ann Granger. 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.
First published as
A Rare Interest in Corpses
in Great Britain by Headline Book Publishing, a division of Hodder Headline
A Rare Interest in Corpses
in Great Britain by Headline Book Publishing, a division of Hodder Headline
eISBN 9781466823112
First eBook Edition : May 2012
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Granger, Ann.
[Rare interest in corpses]
The companion / Ann Granger.—1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-36337-6
ISBN-10: 0-312-36337-0
ISBN-10: 0-312-36337-0
1. Aunts—Fiction. 2. Nieces—Fiction. 3. Rich people—Fiction. 4. Landlords—Fiction. 5. London (England)—Social conditions—19th century—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6057.R259 R37 2007
823’.914—dc22
823’.914—dc22
2007010867
First U.S. Edition: June 2007
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