Deadly Measure of Brimstone

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Editrix ‘Suzie Dooré’ Lestrange, Francine Toon, Poppy North and everyone at Hodder & Stoughton in London. Marcia Markland, Kat Brzozowski, Hector Dejean and everyone at Minotaur in New York. Imogen Olsen for the copy-edit, Jessica Hische for the beautiful jacket design and Bronwen Salter-Murison once again for the Dandy Gilver website. My wonderful agent, Lisa Moylett. My family and friends in Scotland for their stupendous welcome when I returned to research this book. My friends (who feel like family) in America for their stupendous welcome back again. I certainly have fallen in with some good crowds. And thanks, of course, to the smallest and best crowd of all: Neil McRoberts.

Every time it was the same: almost midnight and the only light a quarter moon, bleary as a lamp on the last of its oil through the clouded glass of the window far above. Even that dimmed as the vapours shifted, stirred by movement, but was still enough to see by for someone who knew the way.

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