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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Text and illustrations copyright © 2006 by Marcus Sedgwick
Originally published in Great Britain in 2006 by Orion Children’s Books
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sedgwick, Marcus.
My swordhand is singing / Marcus Sedgwick.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: In the dangerous dark of winter in an Eastern European village during the early seventeenth century, Peter learns from a gypsy girl that the Shadow Queen is behind the recent murders and reanimations, and his father’s secret past may hold the key to stopping her.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89084-0
[1. Supernatural—Fiction. 2. Murder—Fiction. 3. Fathers and sons—Fiction. 4. Vampires—Fiction. 5. Romanies—Fiction. 6. Villages—Fiction. 7. Superstition—Fiction. 8. Europe, Eastern—History—17th century—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.S4484My 2007
[Fic}—dc22 2007007051
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