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VAL McDERMID
DEAD BEAT
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First published in Great Britain by Victor Gollancz 1992 and Orion Books Ltd 1999
Copyright © Val McDermid 1992
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Source ISBN: 9780007142910
Ebook Edition © JUNE 2014 ISBN: 9780007327645
Version: 2014-09-05
For Lisanne and Jane; can we just tell them that, then, darlings?
CONTENTS
Part One
Part Two
I swear one day I’ll kill him. Kill who? The man next door, Richard Barclay, rock journalist and overgrown schoolboy, is who. I had stumbled wearily across the threshold of my bungalow, craving nothing more exotic than a few hours’ sleep