This is a work of fiction. Characters, places, and events are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real people, companies, institutions, organizations, or incidents is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2011 by Nancy Means Wright
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ISBN: 978-1-56474-752-5

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Cover image: The Nightmare, 1781 (oil on canvas) by Henry Fuseli (Fussli, Johann Heinrich) (1741-1825)
Detroit Institute of Arts, USA/ Founders Society purchase with Mr and Mrs Bert L. Smokler/ and Mr and Mrs Lawrence A. Fleischman funds/ The Bridgeman Art Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wright, Nancy Means.
The nightmare : a mystery with Mary Wollstonecraft / by Nancy Means Wright.
p. cm.
ISBN [first print edition] 978-1-56474-509-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797—Fiction. 2. Murder—Investigation--Fiction. 3. Art thefts—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3573.R5373N54 2010
813’.54--dc22
2010040566