NMLP P-042355 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Mermaids Singing

Val McDermid · HarperCollins Publishers (London) · 1995

Two caveats to check against the copy in hand: the exact number-line sequence was not confirmed against a second title-specific source, and dealer records for the UK first give 289 pages while the US issue is recorded at 276 — pagination in marketplace listings for this title is unreliable and the ISBN is the safer discriminator

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-042355 for "The Mermaids Singing" by Val McDermid (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-042355, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).