G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS

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Copyright © 2021 by Heather M. Herrman

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Herrman, Heather M., author.

Title: The Corpse Queen / Heather M. Herrman.

Description: New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [2021] | Summary: Orphaned seventeen-year-old Molly Green is eager to start a new life in her aunt’s lucrative business selling corpses to medical students, but she quickly becomes entangled in a murderer’s plans.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021025853 (print) | LCCN 2021025854 (ebook) | ISBN 9781984816702 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781984816719 (ebook)

Subjects: CYAC: Dead—Fiction. | Grave robbing—Fiction. | Human body—Fiction. | Murder—Fiction. | Sex role—Fiction. | Mothers and daughters—Fiction. | Irish Americans—Fiction. | Philadelphia (Pa.)—History—19th century—Fiction. | LCGFT: Novels.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.H49465 Co 2021 (print) | LCC PZ7.1.H49465 (ebook) | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021025853

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021025854

Ebook ISBN 9781984816719

Cover design by Kristin Boyle

Design by Suki Boynton, adapted for ebook by Michelle Quintero

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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