The Devils Teardrop

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Acknowledgments
    The author would like to thank Vernon Geberth, whose excellent book Practical Homicide Investigation is a milestone work in police procedure and has provided invaluable information in researching this and the author’s other books. The puzzles described in this book are variations on several contained in Perplexing Lateral Thinking Puzzles by Paul Sloane and Des MacHale.

JEFFERY DEAVER , a former attorney and the New York Times bestselling author internationally hailed as “the best psychological thriller writer around” ( The Times, London), has most recently added to his myriad literary achievements as the author of the new James Bond novel, Carte Blanche. He is the originator of the acclaimed detective hero Lincoln Rhyme, featured in nine hit novels including The Bone Collector —which became a Universal Pictures feature film starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. A six-time Edgar Award nominee, Deaver’s numerous stand-alone novels include the “ingenious” ( Library Journal ) page-turner Edge; The Devil’s Teardrop, which became a Lifetime Television movie; and The Bodies Left Behind, winner of the 2009 Best Novel of the Year award from the International Thriller Writers organization.
    Visit www.jefferydeaver.com .

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A LSO BY J EFFERY D EAVER
    Carte Blanche
    Edge
    The Burning Wire*
    Best American Mystery Stories 2009 (Editor)
    The Watch List (The Copper Bracelet and
    The Chopin Manuscript) (Contributor)
    Roadside Crosses**
    The Bodies Left Behind
    The Broken Window*
    The Sleeping Doll**
    More Twisted: Collected Stories, Volume Two
    The Cold Moon*/**
    The Twelfth Card*
    Garden of Beasts
    Twisted: Collected Stories
    The Vanished Man*
    The Stone Monkey*
    The Blue Nowhere
    The Empty Chair*
    Speaking in Tongues
    The Devil’s Teardrop
    The Coffin Dancer*
    The Bone Collector*

    A Maiden’s Grave
    Praying for Sleep
    The Lesson of Her Death
    Mistress of Justice
    Hard News
    Death of a Blue Movie Star
    Manhattan Is My Beat
    Hell’s Kitchen
    Bloody River Blues
    Shallow Graves
    A Century of Great Suspense Stories (Editor)
    A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime (Editor)
    Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Introduction)
    *Featuring Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs
    **Featuring Kathryn Dance

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