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A Red Herring Without Mustard is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2011 by Alan Bradley
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
DELACORTE PRESS is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.
Map by Simon Sullivan
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bradley, C. Alan
A red herring without mustard : a Flavia de Luce novel / Alan Bradley.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-440-33986-1
1. Girls—England—Fiction. 2. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. I. Title.
PR9199.4.B7324R43 2011
813′.6–dc22
2010042029
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Jacket design: Joe Montgomery
v3.1
For John and Janet Harland
… a cup of ale without a wench, why, alas, ’tis like an egg without salt or a red herring without mustard.
THOMAS LODGE AND ROBERT GREENE
A Looking Glasse, for London and Englande (1592)