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  MARJORIE ECCLES was born in Yorkshire and spent much of her childhood there and on the Northumbrian coast. The author of over twenty books, serials and short stories, she is the recipient of the Agatha Christie Short Story Styles Award. Living on the edge of the Black Country, where she taught creative writing, inspired the acclaimed Gil Mayo series which was recently adapted for the BBC. She now lives in Hertfordshire.

  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.

  A THOMAS DUNNE BOOK FOR MINOTAUR BOOKS.

  An imprint of St. Martin’s Publishing Group.

  BROKEN MUSIC. Copyright © 2009 by Marjorie Eccles. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Eccles, Marjorie.

  Broken music: a mystery / Marjorie Eccles.—1st U.S. ed.

  p. cm.

  Originally published in Great Britain by Allison & Busby Limited in 2009.

  ISBN: 978-1-4299-8408-9

  1. Ex-police officers—Fiction. 2. Women—Crimes against—Fiction. 3. Great Britain—History—George V, 1910–1936—Fiction. 4. Great Britain—History—Victoria, 1837–1901—Fiction. I. Title.

  PR6055.C33B76 2011

  823'.914—dc22

  2011027084

  First published in Great Britain by Allison & Busby Limited