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  Ron and Janet live in North Carolina. When they aren’t writing, you’ll probably find them aboard their sailboat, in the Neuse River.

  Visit their website: www.benrey.com … and their blog: www.fictionafter50.com

  Other Books by the Authors

  The Royal Tunbridge Wells Mysteries:

  The Final Crumpet

  The Pippa Hunnechurch Mysteries:

  Little White Lies

  The Second Mile

  Humble Pie

  The Glory Mysteries:

  Glory Be!

  Gone to Glory

  Grits and Glory

  Season of Glory

  Novella compilation

  Building Love

  Non-fiction books by Ron Benrey

  Know Your Rights: A Survival Guide for Non-Lawyers

  Understanding Christianity: Cutting Through the Confusion

  The Idiot’s Guide to Writing Christian Fiction

  Copyright

  Dead as a Scone

  Copyright © 2004, 2011 by Ron and Janet Benrey

  All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

  Greenbrier Book Company P.O. Box 12721

  New Bern, NC 28561

  Visit our Web site at www.greenbrierbooks.com

  First eBook Edition: March 2011

  The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

  Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 197, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

  Amazon Kindle eBook eISBN: 978-1-936924-40-0

  Cover design by Ken Raney

  Table of Contents

  A Note From the Authors

  The Royal Tunbridge Wells Tea Museum

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  Discussion Questions

  About the Authors

  Other Books by the Authors

  Copyright