Text © 1999 by Mary Jane Maffini

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Napoleon Publishing/RendezVous Press
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Printed in Canada

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Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data

Maffini, Mary Jane, date
      Speak ill of the dead

ISBN 0-929141-65-2

I. Title.

PS8576.A3385S63 1999         C813’.54         C99-931189-1
PR9199.3.M3433S63 1999