Аннотация
Charlaine Harris
Lily Bard 03 - Shakespeare's Christmas
For Dean James: reader, writer, friend, and bookseller extraordinaire
Acknowledgments
My thanks to all who gave me information and advice
while I was writing this book: retired police chief Phil
Gates, go-between Ann Hilgeman, private detective
Norma Rowell, and fingerprint expert M. Nolte.
Chapter One
My situation was as surreal as one of those slo-mo nightmares Hollywood uses to pad B movies.
I was sitting in the bed of a moving Dodge Ram pickup. I was enthroned on a wobbly plastic lawn chair, thinly disguised by a red plush couch throw edged with fringe. A crowd lined both sides of the street, waving and yelling. From time to time, I dipped my hand into the white plastic bucket settled on my lap, coming up with a fistful of candy to pitch to the spectators.
Though I was clothed, which I understand is not the case in many dreams, my clothes were hardly typical...
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