The Way of All Flesh. Ambrose Parry

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      Ambrose Parry is a pseudonym for a collaboration between Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman. The couple are married and live in Scotland. Chris Brookmyre is the internationally bestselling and multi-award winning author of over twenty novels, including Black Widow, winner of both the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of te Year adn the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Novel of the Year. Dr Marisa Haetzman is a consultant anaesthetist of twenty years’ experience, whose research for her Master’s degree in the History of Medicine uncovered the material upon which this series was based. @ambroseparry

      First published in Great Britain and the USA in 2018 by Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE

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      Distributed in the USA by Publishers Group West

      This digital edition first published in 2018 by Canongate Books

      Copyright © Christopher Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman, 2018

      Extract from The Art of Dying copyright © Christopher Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman, 2019

      The moral right of the authors have been asserted

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library

      ISBN 9978 1 78689 380 2

      eISBN 978 1 78689 381 9

      Typeset in Van Dijck by Palimpsest Book Production Ltd, Falkirk, Stirlingshire

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      CONTENTS

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

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