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.


Copyright © 2007 by Stephen Gallagher


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Published in the United States by Shaye Areheart Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data


Gallagher, Stephen.

The kingdom of bones: a novel/Stephen Gallagher.—1st ed.

p. cm.

1. Theater—History—19th century—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6057.A3893K66 2007

823'.914—dc22         2007013288


eISBN: 978-0-307-40566-1


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