ALSO BY THE AUTHOR
JACQUELINE WINSPEAR
Copyright © 2004 by Jacqueline Winspear
All rights reserved.
Published by
Soho Press, Inc.
853 Broadway
New York, NY 10003
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955–
Birds of a feather / by Jacqueline Winspear.
p. cm.
ISBN 1-56947-368-4 (alk. paper)
1. Women private investigators—England—London—Fiction. 2. Young women—Crimes against—Fiction. 3. Inheritance and succession—Fiction. 4. Children of the rich—Fiction. 5. World War, 1914–1918—Fiction. 6. London (England)—Fiction. 7. Missing persons—Fiction.
I. Title.
PR6123.I575 B57 2004
823'.92—dc22 2003025732
Designed by Kathleen Lake, Neuwirth & Associates, Inc.
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To Kenneth Leech
1919–2002
During my childhood I was lucky to have Ken Leech as my teacher. In the years of my growing up and into adulthood, I was privileged to count him among my friends.
How will you fare, sonny, how will you fare
In the far off winter night
When you sit by the fire in the old man’s chair
And your neighbors talk of the fight?
Will you slink away, as it were from a blow,
Your old head shamed and bent?
Or say, “I was not the first to go,
But I went, thank God, I went”?—from the song “Fall In,” by Harold Begbie, 1914
CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY - ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY - TWO
