Copyright © 1995 by Zev Chafets

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Jobete Music Co., Inc. for permission to reprint two lines from “The Way You Do the Things You Do” by William Robinson, Jr., and Robert Rogers. Copyright © 1964 by Jobete Music Co., Inc. Reprinted by permission.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Chafets, Ze’ev.

      The bookmakers / Zev Chafets.
            p. cm.
      eISBN: 978-0-307-79973-9:

      1. Authors and publishers—New York (N.Y.)—Fiction.

2. Novelists, American—New York (N.Y.)—Fiction. 3. Murder—New York (N.Y.)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3553.H225B66 1995
813′.54—dc20        94-32159

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