BERKLEY PRIME CRIME

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Copyright © 2018 by Jennifer Ashley

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Ashley, Jennifer, author.

Title: Scandal above stairs / Jennifer Ashley.

Description: First edition. | New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2018. | Series: Below stairs mystery ; 2

Identifiers: LCCN 2017052493 | ISBN 9780399585531 (paperback) | ISBN 9780399585548 (Ebook)

Subjects: BISAC: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Historical. | Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3601.S547 S29 2018 | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017052493

First Edition: July 2018

Cover art by David Marano

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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