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THE
MADNESS
UNDERNEATH
DON’T MISS THE FIRST BOOK IN THE
SHADES OF LONDON SERIES:
THE
MADNESS
UNDERNEATH
maureen johnson
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Johnson, Maureen, 1973–
The madness underneath / Maureen Johnson.
p. cm. —(Shades of London ; bk. 2)
Summary: “After her near-fatal run-in with the Jack the Ripper copycat, Rory Deveaux is back in London to help solve a new string of inexplicable deaths plaguing the city”—Provided by publisher. [1. Boarding schools—Fiction. 2. Schools—Fiction. 3. Murder—Fiction. 4. Ghosts—Fiction. 5. London (England)—Fiction. 6. England—Fiction. ] I. Title.
PZ7. J634145Mad 2013 [Fic]—dc23 2012026755
ISBN: 978-1-101-60783-1
ALWAYS LEARNING
PEARSON
Table of Contents
The Royal Gunpowder Pub
The Crack in the Floor
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
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15
16
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18
New Dawn Psychic Parlor
The Falling Woman
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THE ROYAL GUNPOWDER PUB,
ARTILLERY LANE, EAST LONDON
NOVEMBER 11
10:15 A. M.
CHARLIE STRONG LIKED HIS CUSTOMERS—YOU DON’T RUN a pub for twenty-one years if you don’t like your customers—but there was something about the quiet in the morning that pleased him to no end. In the morning, Charlie had the one cigarette he allowed himself daily. He drew on the Silk Cut slowly, listening to the satisfying sizzle of burning paper and tobacco. He could smoke inside when no one else was here. Good mug of tea. Good smoke. Good bacon on his sandwich.
