Social Crimes

  About the Author

  JANE STANTON HITCHCOCK is the New York Times bestselling author of Mortal Friends, The Witches’ Hammer, Trick of the Eye, and One Dangerous Lady, as well as several plays. She lives with her husband, syndicated foreign affairs columnist Jim Hoagland, in New York City and Washington, D.C.

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  Also by Jane Stanton Hitchcock

  The Witches’ Hammer

  One Dangerous Lady

  Trick of the Eye

  Mortal Friends

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  Copyright

  A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2002 by Miramax Books, an imprint of Hyperion.

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