Death and the Arrow (12 page)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CHRIS PRIESTLEY is a writer and illustrator who has published several works of fiction and nonfiction for young readers in the United Kingdom. He lives with his family in Norfolk, England. This is his first book for Knopf.
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Text and interior illustrations copyright © 2003 by Chris Priestley
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
Published in the United States of America by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House
Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Distributed by Random
House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Great Britain by Doubleday,
an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, in 2003.
KNOPF, BORZOI BOOKS, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Priestley, Chris.
Death and the arrow / by Chris Priestley. — 1st American ed.
p. cm.
“A Borzoi book.”
Summary: After his friend Will, a pickpocket in London in 1715, is murdered as part
of a series of mysterious deaths, fifteen-year-old Tom Marlowe asks his friend
Dr. Harker to help find the killer.
[1. Murder—Fiction. 2. London (England)—History—18th century—Fiction.
3. Mystery and detective stories.] I. Title.
PZ7.P93445De 2003
[Fic]—dc21
2002043260
May 2003
First American Edition
eISBN: 978-0-307-43327-5
v3.0