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About the Author

Leon Garfield was born in Brighton in 1921. He was the acclaimed author of more than thirty novels for children and adults including
Devil in the Fog
, winner of the inaugural Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1967,
The God Beneath the Sea
, winner of the 1970 Carnegie Medal, and
John Diamond
, winner of the 1980 Whitbread literary award. He was also elected a member of the Royal Society of Literature. He died in 1996.

Also by Leon Garfield:

The Apprentices

Black Jack

Blewcoat Boy

Bostock and Harris

The Boy and The Monkey

The Confidence Man

The December Rose

Devil-In-The-Fog

The Drummer Boy

The Empty Sleeve

The Ghost Downstairs

The God Beneath The Sea

The Golden Shadow

Guilt and Gingerbread

The House of Cards

John Diamond

Mr Corbett's Ghost

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Pleasure Garden

The Prisoners of September

Sabre-Tooth Sandwich

The Saracen Maid

The Sound of Coaches

The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris

THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF ADELAIDE HARRIS

AN RHCP DIGITAL EBOOK 978 1 448 17389 1

Published in Great Britain by RHCP Digital,

an imprint of Random House Children's Publishers UK

A Random House Group Company

This ebook edition published 2013

Copyright © Leon Garfield, 1971

First Published in Great Britain by Longhams, 1971

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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

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