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J. JEFFERSON FARJEON
The House Opposite
COLLINS CRIME CLUB An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF First published in Great Britain for Crime Club by W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1932 Copyright © Estate of J. Jefferson Farjeon 1932 Cover design by Mike Topping © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2016 Cover background images © shutterstock.com 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: 9780008155865 Ebook Edition © August 2016 ISBN: 9780008155858 Version: 2016-06-28 Table of Contents
Chapter 4: At the Coffee Stall
Chapter 5: The Contents of a Parcel
Chapter 7: The Will of a Woman
Chapter 8: Ben Finds New Quarters
Chapter 11: What You Can Do When You Matter
Chapter 12: How Not to Kill an Indian
Chapter 13: A Queer Association
Chapter 15: Ben Commits a Murder
Chapter 16: Ben Takes the Plunge
Chapter 17: The Spider’s Parlour
Chapter 18: Cocktails in Jowle Street
Chapter 19: Mr Clitheroe’s Big Idea
Chapter 20: Wheels Within Wheels
Chapter 21: Little Hymns of Hate
Chapter 22: The Friendly Surface
Chapter 26: Mahdi Takes Control
