Death Comes for the Fat Man

by Reginald Hill

  An April Shroud

  A Pinch of Snuff

  A Killing Kindness

  Deadheads

  Exit Lines

  Child’s Play

  Underworld

  Bones and Silence

  One Small Step

  Recalled to Life

  Pictures of Perfection

  Asking for the Moon

  The Wood Beyond

  On Beulah Height

  Arms and the Women

  Dialogues of the Dead

  Death’s Jest-Book

  Good Morning, Midnight

  JOE SIXSMITH NOVELS

  Blood Sympathy

  Born Guilty

  Killing the Lawyers

  Singing the Sadness

  Fell of Dark

  The Long Kill

  Death of a Dormouse

  Dream of Darkness

  The Only Game

  Credits

  Jacket illustrations: Window © Andrew Sanderson/Trevillion Images Figure © Dave & Les Jacobs/Getty Images

  Copyright

  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.

  DEATH COMES FOR THE FAT MAN Copyright © 2007 by Reginald Hill. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, 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.

  EPub Edition © FEBRUARY 2007 ISBN: 9780061835742

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