The Alpine Xanadu 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 © 2013 by Mary Daheim
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books,
an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group,
a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
BALLANTINE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Daheim, Mary.
The Alpine Xanadu: an Emma Lord mystery/
Mary Daheim.
pages cm
eISBN: 978-0-345-53886-4
1. Lord, Emma (Fictitious character)—Fiction.
2. Women publishers—Fiction.
3. Washington (State)—Fiction. 4. Mystery fiction.
I. Title.
PS3554.A264A88 2013
813’.54—dc23
2012043209
Cover design and illustration: Peter Thorpe
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