by Robert Quackenbush
A Miss Mallard Mystery: Stairway to Doom
by Robert Quackenbush
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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This Aladdin QUIX paperback edition September 2018
Copyright © 1981 by Robert Quackenbush
Also available in an Aladdin QUIX hardcover edition.
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Series and cover designed by Nina Simoneaux
Interior designed by Tiara Iandiorio
The illustrations for this book were rendered in pen and ink and wash.
The Library of Congress has cataloged a previous edition as follows:
Quackenbush, Robert M. / Express train to trouble.
Summary: When troublesome George Ruddy Duck disappears on the express train to Cairo, Miss Mallard applies her detective genius to find out what happened and save the reputation of the train.
[1. Ducks—Fiction. 2. Mystery and detective stories.] I. Title.
PZ7.Q16Ex 1981 [E] 82-8477 AACR2
ISBN 978-1-5344-1403-7 (hc)
ISBN 978-1-5344-1402-0 (pbk)
ISBN 978-1-5344-1404-4 (eBook)
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