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This title first published in Great Britain in 1977

by Victor Gollancz

eBook edition first published in 2011 by Severn Select an imprint

of Severn House Publishers Limited

Copyright © 1975 Simon Brett.

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ISBN-13: 978-1-4483-0002-0 (epub)

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