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A Rule Against Murder Assignment
ALSO BY LOUISE PENNY
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LOUISE PENNY
A RULE AGAINST MURDER
MINOTAUR BOOKS NEW YORK
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
A RULE AGAINST MURDER. Copyright © 2008 by Louise Penny. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
www.minotaurbooks.com
Book design by Jonathan Bennett
Excerpt from The Cremation of Sam McGee used by kind permission of the Estate of Robert Service.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Penny Louise.
A rule against murder / Louise Penny.—1st ed.
p.cm.
http://www.minotaurbooks.com/
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-37702-1
ISBN-10: 0-312-37702-9
Gamache, Armand (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Police—Québec (Province)—Fiction. 3. Québec (Province)— Fiction. 4. Murder—Investigation— Fiction. 5. Resorts— Fiction. I. Title.
PR9199.4.P464R85 2009
813’.6—dc22
2008030430
First published in Great Britain by Headline Publishing Group under the title The Murder Stone
First U.S. Edition: January 2009
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For my parents, in love and memory
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I have a few people to thank for this book. The first and foremost, as always, is my kind and gentle husband, Michael. It took me a lot longer than it should have to realize that Armand Gamache isn’t simply my fictional husband, he’s my real husband. Indeed, without even realizing it I based Chief Inspector Gamache on Michael. A man who is content and knows great joy, because he’s known great sorrow. And mostly, he knows the difference.
I’d also like to thank Rachel Hewitt, who curates the sculpture collection at the Royal Academy in London.
Hope Dellon of St. Martin’s Press/Minotaur Books and Sherise Hobbs of Headline are my editors and worked to make this book what it is. I owe them both a huge debt, as I do the most wonderful agent in the world, Teresa Chris. She is very wise.
I owe a great debt to Lise Page, my assistant, who patiently tends gardens in the summer and tends to us the rest of the year. Everything she touches flourishes. And she rarely finds the need to use fertilizer.
And finally Jason, Stephen and Kathy Stafford, who own and run Manoir Hovey in the village of North Hatley, Quebec. The Manoir Bellechasse is inspired by Hovey Manor, and by the many, many wonderful days and nights we’ve spent there. If you read this book and then visit Hovey you’ll notice that it is far from an exact replica—of the Inn or the lake. But I hope
I have, at least, captured the feel of Manoir Hovey. In fact, Michael and I love it so much we got married in the tiny Anglican Chapel in North Hatley many years ago, then had a two-day wedding party at Hovey.
Bliss.
Though, as Stephen has pointed out, they happily do not have nearly the number of black flies as the fictional Manoir Bellechasse. Nor, it must be said, nearly the number of murders.
More than a century ago the Robber Barons discovered Lac Massawippi. They came with purpose from Montreal, Boston, New York, and burrowing deep into the Canadian wilderness they built the great lodge. Though, of course, they didn’t actually dirty their own hands. What clung to them was something else entirely. No, these men hired men with names like Zoétique, Télesphore and Honoré to hack down the massive and ancient forests. At first the Québécois were resistant, having lived in the forest all their lives. They balked at destroying a thing of such beauty and a few of the more intuitive recognized the end when they saw it. But money took care of that and slowly the forest receded and the magnificent Manoir Bellechasse rose. After months of cutting and stripping and turning and drying the huge logs were finally stacked one on top of the other. It was an art, this building of log homes. But what guided the keen eyes and rough hands of these men wasn’t aesthetics but the certainty that winter’s bite would kill whoever was inside if they didn’t choose the logs wisely. A coureur de bois could contemplate the stripped trunk of a massive tree for hours, as though deciphering it. Walking round and round, sitting on a stump, filling his pipe and staring until finally this coureur de bois, this man of the woods, knew exactly where that tree would sit for the rest of its life.
It took years, but finally the great lodge was completed. The last man stood on the magnificent copper roof like a lightning rod and surveyed the forests and the lonely, haunting lake from a height he’d never achieve again. And if that man’s eyes could see far enough he’d make out something horrible approaching, like the veins of summer lightning. Marching
toward not merely the lodge, but the exact place he stood, on the gleaming metal roof. Something dreadful was going to happen on that very spot.
He’d laid copper roofs bef
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Methodology 58-53 points Content is well-organized with headings for each slide and bulleted lists to group related material as needed. Use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance readability and presentation content is excellent. Length requirements of 10 slides/pages or less is met. |
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83-76 points Review of relevant theoretical literature is evident, but there is little integration of studies into concepts related to problem. Review is partially focused and organized. Supporting and opposing research are included. Summary of information presented is included. Conclusion may not contain a biblical integration. |
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