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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cormier, Robert.
The rag and bone shop: a novel / by Robert Cormier.
p. cm.
Summary: Trent, an ace interrogator from Vermont, works to procure a confession from an introverted twelve-year-old accused of murdering his seven-year-old friend in Monument, Massachusetts.
Fiction. 4. Murder—Fiction. 5. Massachusetts—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.C81634 Rag 2001
[Fic]—dc21 2001028540
October 2001
eISBN: 978-0-385-72992-5
v3.0