First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2009
First published in this edition in the United States of America by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2018
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Source ISBN: 9780008248802
Ebook Edition © ISBN: 9780008266332
Version: 2018-04-26
This book is dedicated to my agent, Michelle Kass.
I’m not going to be sappy here, OK? I’m not going to talk about how much you’ve done for me (which is a lot), or the impact you’ve had on my life (which is immense), and I’m not even going to talk about the advice, encouragement, and counsel you’ve given me since we met. And I’m not going to mention conversations on tractors either, or iPods at dinner tables, or the amount of Yiddish words you’ve taught me that I’ve promptly forgotten.
All of which, surprisingly, leaves me with nothing much to say.
Sorry about that.
Contents
Chapter 1: The Scene of the Crime
Chapter 2: Killer on the Loose
Chapter 5: Tracking the Teleporter
Chapter 10: Finbar’s Little Trip
Chapter 12: In the Office of the Grand Mage
Chapter 13: The House on Cemetery Road
Chapter 15: Breaking and Entering
Chapter 16: Stealing the Grotesquery
Chapter 17: The Dark Little Secret
Chapter 19: The Man Who Would Be King
Chapter 22: Conversations with a Late Uncle