The Game (53 page)
Authors: Laurie R. King
LAURIE R. KING
became the first novelist since Patricia Cornwell to win prizes for Best First Crime Novel on both sides of the Atlantic with the publication of her debut thriller,
A Grave Talent
. She is the bestselling author of four contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli, seven Mary Russell mysteries, and the bestselling novels
A Darker Place
and
Folly
. She lives in northern California.
Other Mystery Novels by
LAURIE R. KING
Mary Russell Novels
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
A Monstrous Regiment of Women
A Letter of Mary
The Moor
O Jerusalem
Justice Hall
Kate Martinelli Novels
A Grave Talent
To Play the Fool
With Child
Night Work
And
A Darker Place
Folly
Keeping Watch
THE GAME
A Bantam Book / March 2004
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Copyright © 2004 by Laurie R. King
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
King, Laurie R.
The game : a Mary Russell novel / by Laurie R. King.
p. cm.
eISBN 0-553-89876-0
1. Russell, Mary (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Holmes,
Sherlock (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 3. Women detectives—
India—Fiction. 4. Intelligence officers—Fiction. 5. British—
India—Fiction. 6. Missing persons—Fiction. 7. Married women—
Fiction. 8. India—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3561.I4813G36 2004
813'.54—dc22 2003055684
Published simultaneously in Canada
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The Game
Laurie R. King
Bantam Dell
OEB
2004-01-21
Fiction
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US English
Copyright 2004
