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Copyright © 2018 by Jennifer Ashley

Excerpt from Scandal Above Stairs copyright © 2018 by Jennifer Ashley

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Ashley, Jennifer, author.

Title: Death below stairs / Jennifer Ashley.

Description: First edition. | New York : Berkeley Prime Crime, 2018. |

Identifiers: LCCN 2017012873 (print) | LCCN 2017018380 (eBook) | ISBN

9780399585524 (eBook) | ISBN 9780399585517 (trade paperback)

Subjects: | GSAFD: Mystery fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3601.S547 (ebook) | LCC PS3601.S547 D43 2018 (print) |

DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017012873

First Edition: January 2018

Cover art: Woman on stairs by Elisabeth Ansley/Trevillion; Wallpaper by Reinhold Leitner/Shutterstock

Cover design by Emily Osborne

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

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