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Originally published as La costola di Adamo in Italy in 2015 by Sellerio Editore, Palermo.

ADAM’S RIB. Copyright © 2016 by Antonio Manzini. English language translation copyright © 2016 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

The publication of this volume has been supported by a translation grant of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Questo volume ha beneficiato di un contributo alla traduzione assegnato dal Ministero degli Affari Esteri italiano.

FIRST U.S. EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Manzini, Antonio, 1964- author. | Shugaar, Antony translator.

Title: Adam’s rib : a novel / Antonio Manzini ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar.

Other titles: Costola di Adamo. English

Description: First edition. | New York : Harper, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016013385 | ISBN 9780062354679 (pbk.) | ISBN 9780062354693 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Murder--Investigation--Fiction. | Detective and mystery stories. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction

Classification: LCC PQ4913.A69 C6713 2016 | DDC 853/.92--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016013385

ISBN 978-0-06-235467-9 (pbk.)

EPub Edition August 2016 ISBN 9780062354693

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