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    Fan Mail
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    Fan Mail

    By Peter Robinson

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJan 5, 2016
    ISBN9780062413833
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    Peter Robinson

    One of the world’s most popular and acclaimed writers, Peter Robinson was the bestselling, award-winning author of the DCI Banks series. He also wrote two short-story collections and three stand-alone novels, which combined have sold more than ten million copies around the world. Among his many honors and prizes were the Edgar Award, the CWA (UK) Dagger in the Library Award, and the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy Martin Beck Award.

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      Fan Mail - Peter Robinson

      cover.jpgTitle-Page

      Contents

      Fan Mail

      About the Author

      Also by Peter Robinson

      Credits

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      FAN MAIL

      THE LETTER ARRIVED one sunny Thursday morning in August, along with a Visa bill and a royalty statement. Dennis Quilley carried the mail out to the deck of his Beaches home, stopping by the kitchen on the way to pour himself a gin and tonic. He had already been writing for three hours straight and he felt he deserved a drink.

      First he looked at the amount of the royalty check, then he put aside the Visa bill and picked up the letter carefully, as if he were a forensic expert investigating it for prints. Postmarked Toronto and dated four days earlier, it was addressed in a small, precise hand and looked as if it had been written with a fine-­nibbed calligraphic pen. But the postal code was different; that had been hurriedly scrawled in with a ballpoint. Whoever it was, Quilley thought, had probably got his name from the telephone directory and had then looked up the code in the post office just before mailing.

      Pleased with his deductions, Quilley opened the letter. Written in the same neat and mannered hand as the address, it said:

      Dear Mr. Quilley,

      Please forgive me for writing to you at home like

      this. I know you must be very busy, and it is

      inexcusable of me to intrude on your valuable time.

      Believe me, I would not do so if I could think of any

      other way.

      I have been a great fan of your work for many

      years now. As a collector of mysteries, too, I also

      have first editions of all your books. From what I

      have read, I know you are a clever man and, I hope,

      just the man to help me with my problem.

      For the past twenty years, my wife has been making

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