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DON’T MISS THE FIRST TWO BOOKS IN THE SHADES OF LONDON SERIES:

The Name of the Star The Madness Underneath

ALSO BY MAUREEN JOHNSON

13 Little Blue Envelopes

The Last Little Blue Envelope

Suite Scarlett

Scarlett Fever

Girl at Sea

Devilish

The Bermudez Triangle

The Key to the Golden Firebird

Vacations from Hell with Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, Claudia Gray and Sarah Mlynowski

 Let It Snow with John Green and Lauren Myracle

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Johnson, Maureen, 1973–

The shadow cabinet / Maureen Johnson.

pages cm—(Shades of London ; book 3)

Summary: “Rory, Callum and Boo are still reeling from a series of tragic events, while new dangers lurk around the city from Jane and her nefarious organization”—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.

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Contents

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Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

December 22, 1973

Three Missing

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

St. Mary’s Hospital, West London

Two Missing

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

The Boatman Pub

Three Found

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

December 21

 

Acknowledgments

For Zelda

DECEMBER 22, 1973 WEST LONDON

THE CURTAINS AT 16 HYSSOP CLOSE HADN’T BEEN OPENED all day. The neighbors all agreed—something wasn’t right about the place anymore, not since the Smithfield-Wyatts had died and their twins now ruled the roost. The people that went in and out, for a start. Rock musicians. Actors. Old, bearded men in cloaks who the more suspicious locals thought might be poets. Worst of all were the gaggle of young people—all rough-looking, with long hair and ragged, garish clothing. It was the same group every time, coming in and out at all hours, laughing and chatting and flicking their cigarettes into everyone else’s rosebushes. (Were they cigarettes?) And that girl who lived there—the one with her hair cut short and dyed the color of a London bus, the one who wore men’s suits—who was she? Aside from up to no good.