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C. Beaton ROBINSON London   Constable & Robinson Ltd 3 The Lanchesters 162 Fulham Palace Road London W6 9ER www.constablerobinson.com First published in the USA 1985 by St Martin’s Press 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 This edition published by Robinson, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd 2008 Copyright © 1985, 2008 M. C. Beaton The right of M. C. Beaton to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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    A copy of the British Library Cataloguing in Publication data is available from the British Library ISBN: 978-1-84529-665-0 Printed and bound in the EU 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2   Contents Day One Day Two Day Three Day Four Day Five Day Six Day Seven Epilogue   In memory of Fleet Street days – for my very dear friend, Rita Marshall, with love   CAST OF CHARACTERS (in order of appearance) John Cartwright: Owner of the Lochdubh School of Casting: Salmon and Trout Fishing Heather Cartwright: His wife, and joint owner of the school Marvin Roth: American businessman and budding congressman Amy Roth: His wife Lady Jane Winters: Society widow Jeremy Blythe: Barrister from London Alice Wilson: Secretary from London Charlie Baxter: Twelve-year-old child from Manchester Major Peter Frame: Ex-army, expert angler Daphne Gore: Debutante from Oxford Hamish Macbeth: Village constable Priscilla Halburton-Smythe: Local landowner’s daughter Detective Chief Inspector Blair: Head of Strathbane CID Detectives Jimmy Anderson and Harry McNab: Blair’s assistants John Harrington: Courting Priscilla Halburton-Smythe Colonel and Mrs Halburton-Smythe: Priscilla’s parents Mr Johnson: Hotel manager Angus MacGregor: Poacher   You came and quacked beside me in the wood, You said: ‘The view from here is very good.’ You said: ‘It’s nice to be alone a bit.’ And: ‘How the days are drawing out,’ you said.

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