PLUME
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Copyright © 2016 by J. Aaron Sanders
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sanders, J. Aaron.
Speakers of the dead / J. Aaron Sanders.—First edition.
pages cm.—(A Walt Whitman mystery)
ISBN 978-0-14-312871-7 (pbk.)
1. Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892—Fiction. 2. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. 3. Body snatching—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3619.A5265S64 2016
813'.6—dc23
2015022268
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. The author’s use of names of historical figures, places, or events are not intended to change the entirely fictional character of the work. In all other respects, any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.