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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Epigraph
An Old House in Provence
Charges Against a Dead Man
Madame le Juge
Witnesses
An Inquisitive Painter
A Fatal Boating Accident
The Last Text Message
A Dead Tourist, and a Red Car
An Artist Without an Alibi
An Inappropriate Affair
Search Warrant
Fire
Le Midi
About the Author
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
MURDEROUS MISTRAL. Copyright © 2015 by Cay Rademacher. Translation copyright © 2017 by Peter Millar. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Cover design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein
Cover photograph of lavender field © Ronnybass / Shutterstock.com
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Rademacher, Cay, author. | Millar, Peter, translator.
Title: Murderous mistral: a Provence mystery / Cay Rademacher; translated from the German by Peter Millar.
Other titles: Mörderischer Mistral. English
Description: First U.S. edition. | New York: Minotaur Books, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017022285 | ISBN 9781250110701 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781250110718 (ebook)
Classification: LCC PT2678.A238 M6713 2017 | DDC 833/.92—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017022285
eISBN 9781250110718
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First published in Germany by Dumont Buchverlag Gmbh under the title Mörderischer Mistral: Ein Provence-Krimi mit Capitaine Roger Blanc
First U.S. Edition: September 2017