Scarlet Fever is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2019 by American Artists, Inc.
Illustrations copyright © 2019 by Lee Gildea, Jr.
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Names: Brown, Rita Mae, author.
Title: Scarlet fever: a novel / Rita Mae Brown.
Description: First edition. | New York: Ballantine Books, [2019] | Series: Sister Jane; 12
Identifiers: LCCN 2019034600 (print) | LCCN 2019034601 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593130001 (hardcover: acid-free paper) | ISBN 9780593130018 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Arnold, Jane (Fictitious character)—Fiction. | Murder—Investigation—Fiction. | Fox hunting—Fiction. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3552.R698 S33 2019 (print) | LCC PS3552.R698 (ebook) | DDC 813/.54—dc23
Ebook ISBN 9780593130018
Cover design: Victoria Allen
Cover illustration: © 2019 by Peter Malone
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