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The Pearl Diver

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by Sujata Massey


  Credits

  Cover design by Peter Martin

  Cover photographs: woman’s feet © by

  Lesley Robson-Foster/Getty Images; oyster shell

  © by Steve Cohen/Foodpix/Getty Images

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  THE PEARL DIVER. Copyright © 2004 by Sujata Massey. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable 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 hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  First Dark Alley edition published 2005.

  Dark Alley is a federally registered trademark of HarperCollins Publishers.

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  The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

  Massey, Sujata.

  The Pearl Diver / Sujata Massey.—1st ed.

  p. cm.

  ISBN 0-06-621296-0 (acid-free paper)

  1. Shimura, Rei (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Women detectives—Washington (D.C.)—Fiction. 3. Japanese Americans—Fiction. 4. Washington (D.C.)—Fiction. 5. Antique dealers—Fiction. I. Title.

  PS3563.A79965P43 2004

  813'.54—dc22

  2003067614

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  ISBN 0-06-059790-9 (pbk.)

  05 06 07 08 09 /RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

  EPub Edition © JUNE 2012 ISBN: 978-0-06-221891-9

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