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Credits

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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.

THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN. Copyright © 2013 by Hallie Ephron. 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 EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Ephron, Hallie.

    There was an old woman : a novel of suspense / Hallie Ephron. — 1st ed.

      p.  cm.

    ISBN 978-0-06-211760-1 (hardcover)—ISBN 978-0-06-211761-8 (pbk.)—ISBN 978-0-06-211762-5 (ebook) 1. Psychological fiction. 2. Suspense fiction. I. Title.

  PS3605.P49T47 2013

  813'.6—dc23

2012027410

EPub Edition © FEBRUARY 2013 ISBN: 9780062117625

13 14 15 16 17 OV/RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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