He suddenly boomed with laughter. “You didn’t follow the Precepts. But”—he leaned forward—“I must share a truth with you.”
I scarcely breathed. This was the moment when I would learn of my permanent banishment from the Department of Good Intentions, though it was rather cruel of Wiggins to find the prospect so amusing.
“In Tumbulgum”—and his brown eyes gleamed with delight—“neither did I.”
About the Author
An accomplished master of mystery, CAROLYN HART is the author of nineteen Death on Demand novels and the creator of the highly praised Henrie O series. She has won multiple Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards, and received the Lifetime Achievement award from Malice Domestic. Her first Bailey Ruth mystery, Ghost at Work, was named one of the best mysteries of 2008 by Publishers Weekly. She is one of the founders of Sisters in Crime, and lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
www.carolynhart.com
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Southern Ghost
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Yankee Doodle Dead
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Death of the Party
Dead Days of Summer
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Scandal in Fair Haven
Death in Lovers’ Lane
Death in Paradise
Death on the River Walk
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Credits
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Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
MERRY, MERRY GHOST. Copyright © 2009 by Carolyn Hart. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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