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First published in 2011 in Great Britain by Orion Books, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd, a Hachette UK Company.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cameron, Kenneth M.

Winter at Death’s Hotel : a novel / Kenneth Cameron.

pages cm

(paperback : alk. paper) 1. Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930—Fiction. 2. Authors’ spouses—Fiction. 3. Serial murders—Fiction. 4. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. 5. New York—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3553.A4335W56 2013

813’.54—dc23

2013010793