The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge (40 page)

By the Same Author

Fiction

Hallucinating Foucault

Monsieur Shoushana’s Lemon Trees

James Miranda Barry

The Deadly Space Between

Seven Tales of Sex and Death

Miss Webster and Chérif

Criticism

Sisters and Strangers

Writing on the Wall: Selected Essays

Edited

In and Out of Time

Cancer through the Eyes of Ten Women (with Vicky Wilson)

The Woman who Loved Cucumbers (with Janet Thomas)

Mirror, Mirror (with Janet Thomas)

Safe World Gone (with Janet Thomas)

Copyright © 2010 by Patricia Duncker

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library of congress cataloging-in-publication data

Duncker, Patricia, 1951–

The strange case of the composer and his judge : a novel / Patricia Duncker.—1st U.S. ed.

p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-1-60819-203-8 (pbk.)

ISBN-10: 1-60819-203-2 (pbk.)

1. Police—France—Fiction. 2. Murder—Investigation—Fiction.

3. Sects—Fiction. 4. Composers—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6054.U477S77 2010

823’.914—dc22

2009049557

First published by Bloomsbury USA in 2010

This e-book edition published in 2010

E-book ISBN: 978-1-60819-287-8

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