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MRS. QUEEN TAKES THE TRAIN
KUHN, WILLIAM
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After decades of service and years of watching her family’s troubles splashed across the tabloids, Queen
Elizabeth needs some proper cheering up. An impromptu visit to the place that holds her happiest memories—
the former royal yacht, Britannia, moored in Leith, Scotland—is just the cure she needs. Hidden beneath a skullemblazoned
hoodie, the limber Elizabeth (thank goodness for yoga) walks out of Buckingham Palace, into the
freedom of a rainy London day to catch the train to Scotland at King’s Cross. But an unlikely sextet of royal
attendants—a lady-in-waiting, a butler, an equerry, a mistress of the Mews, a dresser, and a clerk from the shop
that serves the queen’s cheese—join together to find their missing monarch and bring her back before her
absence sets off a national scandal.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 25,000
HARPER 352 PAGES
9780062208286
$32.99 HC
OCTOBER 2012
TRADE PAPER EDITION
9780062219923 ($19.99)
MURDER IN MEMORIAM
DANICKX, DIDIER
On the evening of October 17, 1961 twenty-thousand Algerians marched in Paris in defiance of and in protest
against a curfew imposed by Maurice Papon, chief of the Paris Metropolitan Police. The protesters were met
with ferocious and uninhibited violence. Eleven-thousand were arrested; more than one thousand injured; as
many as three hundred were killed, many of them thrown into the Seine, from which their bodies were later
recovered. In recreating the scene of the atrocities in Murder in Memoriam, his controversial alarum first
published in 1984, Didier Daeninckx introduces a fictional observer of the riot, Roger Thiraud, a middle-aged
history teacher in a public school, only steps from his home and his waiting, pregnant wife. In the first few
minutes of the demonstration, he will be assassinated, in cold blood, by a member of the anti-terrorist secret
police.
MYSTERY 1ST PRINTING 10,000
MELVILLE INTERNATIONAL CRIME 176 PAGES
9781612191461
$14.95 TP Original
OCTOBER 2012
MURDER IN THE RUE DUMAS
LONGWORTH, M.L.
A Provencal mystery from the author of Death at the Chateau Bremont.
MYSTERY 1ST PRINTING 35,000
PENGUIN 304 PAGES
9780143121541
$15.00 TP Original
SEPTEMBER 2012
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