Back Room Girl: By the author of Paul Temple. Francis Durbridge

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Название Back Room Girl: By the author of Paul Temple
Автор произведения Francis Durbridge
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      FRANCIS DURBRIDGE

       Back Room Girl

      PLUS

       Light-Fingers

      AND

       A Present from Paul Temple

      WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MELVYN BARNES

       Copyright

      an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by John Long 1950

      ‘Light-Fingers’ and ‘A Present from Paul Temple’

      first published in the Daily Mail Annual for Boys and Girls

      by Associated Newspapers 1950, 1951

      Copyright © Francis Durbridge 1950, 1951

      Introduction © Melvyn Barnes 2018

      Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2018

      Francis Durbridge asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.

      Source ISBN: 9780008242039

      Ebook Edition © February 2018 ISBN: 9780008242022

      Version: 2018-01-09

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Introduction

       Chapter I: Strange Visitors

       Chapter II: Discovery of no Man’s Cove

       Chapter III: A Man’s Life

       Chapter IV: Rude Awakening

       Chapter V: Chief Inspector Leyland Explains

       Chapter VI: Bait for a Trap

       Chapter VII: Atomic Secrets

       Chapter VIII: A Shot in the Dark

       Chapter IX: Smugglers and Monks

      

       Chapter X: The Man With the Handcart

      

       Chapter XI: Attempted Murder

      

       Chapter XII: Strange Behaviour at the Inn

      

       Chapter XIII: Midnight Rendezvous

      

       Chapter XIV: Coffee for Three

      

       Chapter XV: The Man in the Combe

      

       Chapter XVI: Charlie Gets a Shock

      

       Chapter XVII: Two Casualties

      

       Chapter XVIII: The Old Priory

      

       Chapter XIX: Ordeal by Torture

      

       Chapter XX: This Way Out

      

       Chapter XXI: Council of War

      

       Chapter XXII: The Bolt-Hole

      

       Chapter XXIII: Through the Tunnel

      

       Chapter XXIV: Trapped Again

      

       Chapter