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SIDNEY SHELDON
BLOODLINE
HarperFiction
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HarperCollinsPublishers
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First published in Great Britain by Collins 1978
Copyright © Sheldon Literary Trust 1978
Sidney Sheldon asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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Source ISBN: 9780006175018
Ebook Edition © APRIL 2012 ISBN 9780007380893
Version: 2014-12-10
For Natalie with love
The physician will carefullyprepare a mixture of crocodiledung, lizard flesh, bats’ bloodand camels’ spit …
from a papyrus listing
811 prescriptions used
by the Egyptians in
1550 BC
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