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R
OBERT
B
ARNARD
was born in Essex. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and after completing his degree he taught English at universities in Australia and Norway, where he completed his doctorate on Dickens. He returned to England to become a full-time writer and now lives in Leeds with his wife Louise, cat Durdles and dog Peggotty. He has been awarded both the prestigious CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger, in recognition of a lifetime’s achievement in crime writing, as well as the CWA prize for the best short story of the year.

Sheer Torture

The Mistress of Alderley

A Cry from the Dark

The Graveyard Position

Dying Flames

A Fall from Grace

Last Post

The Killings on Jubilee Terrace

A Stranger in the Family

A Mansion and its Murder

Rogue’s Gallery (short story collection)

Allison & Busby Limited  
13 Charlotte Mews  
London W1T 4EJ  
www.allisonandbusby.com

Hardback published in Great Britain in 2011.  
Paperback edition published in 2012.  
This ebook edition first published in 2012.

Copyright © 1998 by R
OBERT
B
ARNARD

The right of R
OBERT
B
ARNARD
to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

This novel was previously published in the US under the pseudonym Bernard Bastable.

All characters and events in this publication other than those clearly in the public domain are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent buyer.

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

ISBN 978–0–7490–1181–9

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