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Authors: Laura Lippman

BOOK: The Most Dangerous Thing

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L
AURA
L
IPPMAN
grew up in Baltimore and returned to her
hometown in 1989 to work as a journalist. After writing seven books while still
a full-time reporter, she left the Baltimore
Sun
to
focus on fiction. She is the author of eleven Tess Monaghan books, including
Baltimore Blues,
Another Thing to Fall,
and
The
Girl in the Green Raincoat;
five stand-alone novels, including
Every Secret Thing, To the Power of Three, What the Dead
Know,
and
Life Sentences;
and one short
story collection,
Hardly Knew Her.
She is also the
editor of another story collection,
Baltimore Noir.
Lippman has won numerous awards for her work, including the Edgar, Quill,
Anthony, Nero Wolfe, Agatha, Gumshoe, Barry, and Macavity.

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Also by Laura
Lippman

I’d Know You
Anywhere

The Girl in the Green
Raincoat

Life Sentences

Hardly Knew Her

Another Thing to
Fall

What the Dead
Know

No Good Deeds

To the Power of
Three

By a Spider’s
Thread

Every Secret
Thing

The Last Place

In a Strange City

The Sugar House

In Big Trouble

Butchers Hill

Charm City

Baltimore Blues

Credits

Cover design by Mumtaz Mustafa

Cover photograph © by Scott G. Johnston / Alamy

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 resemblance to actual events or persons,
living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE MOST DANGEROUS
THING
. Copyright © 2011 by Laura Lippman. All rights reserved under
International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required
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ISBN 978-0-06-170651-6

EPub Edition © September 2011 ISBN:
9780062092588

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