The Good Partner (5 page)

Authors: Peter Robinson

One of the world's most popular and acclaimed writers, PETER ROBINSON grew up in the United Kingdom, and now divides his time between Toronto and England. The bestselling, award-winning author of the Inspector Banks series, he has also written two short-story collections and three standalone novels, which combined have sold more than ten million copies around the world. Among his many honors and prizes are the Edgar Award, the CWA (UK) Dagger in the Library Award, and Sweden's Martin Beck Award.Â

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Credits

Cover photograph Â© Maria Heyens / Arcangel Images

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblence to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE GOOD PARTNER
. Copyright Â© 2015 by Peter Robinson. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransfereable, right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permisison of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST EDITION

This story originally appeared in the collection
Not Safe After Dark
, published by Crippen & Landru in 1998.

EPub Edition Feburary 2016 ISBN 9780062413796

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