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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bland, Eleanor Taylor.

Windy City dying : a Marti MacAlister mystery / Eleanor Taylor Bland.

     p. cm.

ISBN 0-312-30098-0 (hc)

ISBN 0-312-32048-5 (pbk)

1. MacAlister, Marti (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Police—Illinois—Chicago—Fiction. 3. African American police—Fiction. 4. Chicago (Ill.)—Fiction. 5. Policewomen—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3552.L36534 W46 2002

813'.54—dc21

2002069840

First St. Martin’s Griffin Edition: November 2003

eISBN 9781466840270

First eBook edition: February 2013