Copyright © 2014 Scott Phillips

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Phillips, Scott, 1961-

Hop Alley : a novel / Scott Phillips.

pages cm

1.  Murder—Investigation—Fiction.  I. Title.

PS3566.H515H88 2014

813’.54—dc23

2013043962

ISBN 978-1-61902-379-6

Cover design by Michael Fusco

Interior design by Domini Dragoone

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