This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

AN IMPARTIAL WITNESS. Copyright © 2010 by Charles Todd. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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Todd, Charles.

An impartial witness / Charles Todd.—1st ed.

p. cm.

Sequel to : A duty to the dead.

ISBN 978-0-06-179178-9 (hardcover)

1. Nurses—England—Fiction. 2. World War, 1914–1918—England—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3570.O37I67   2010

813'.54—dc22

2009053274

EPub Edition © July 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-200883-1

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