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My thanks are due, as ever to the team at Allison & Busby – in particular Susie Dunlop, Sophie Robinson, Kelly Smith, Lesley Crooks, Kathryn Colwell, Simon and Fliss Bage – to my agent David Headley and to David Wardle for another stunning cover illustration.

I am also indebted to John Ll Williams FRCS for his advice on how to sabotage a sailing boat; but, after several glasses of wine, I confess I may have missed some crucial details. I have also added some embellishments of my own. I can therefore offer readers no guarantee that the method as described would actually work, but would be interested to hear, in strict confidence, from anyone who employs it successfully.

I must repeat my apologies to the people of West Wittering for again implying that the village is a hotbed of crime, a home to Mafiosi, drug dealers or (worse still) incompetent sailors. My fictional West Wittering bears increasingly little resemblance to the real one, and my fictional population no similarity at all to its actual inhabitants, who harbour no murderous intentions that I am aware of.

Finally my thanks, gratitude and love to my family for their support – my wife Ann, our son and daughter-in-law, Tom and Rachel, and our daughter Catrin, to whom this latest volume is dedicated.

 

 

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L. C. T
YLER
was born in Southend-on-Sea and then educated at Oxford and City Universities. His day jobs have included being a systems analyst, a cultural attaché and (for a few weeks one summer) working for Bomb Disposal. He has won awards for his writing, including the Last Laugh Award for the best comic crime novel of the year. He is Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association and has been a CWA Daggers judge. L. C. Tyler has lived all over the world, but most recently in London and Sussex.

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By L. C. Tyler

 

The Herring Seller’s Apprentice

Ten Little Herrings

The Herring in the Library

Herring on the Nile

Crooked Herring

Cat Among the Herrings

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First published in 2016.

This ebook edition first published in Great Britain by Allison & Busby in 2016.

Copyright © 2016 by
L. C. TYLER

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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978–0–7490–1991–4

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