Martin Edwards

A Voice Like Velvet


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      ‘THE DETECTIVE STORY CLUB is a clearing house for the best detective and mystery stories chosen for you by a select committee of experts. Only the most ingenious crime stories will be published under the THE DETECTIVE STORY CLUB imprint. A special distinguishing stamp appears on the wrapper and title page of every THE DETECTIVE STORY CLUB book—the Man with the Gun. Always look for the Man with the Gun when buying a Crime book.’

       Wm. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1929

      Now the Man with the Gun is back in this series of COLLINS CRIME CLUB reprints, and with him the chance to experience the classic books that influenced the Golden Age of crime fiction.

       Copyright

      COLLINS CRIME CLUB

      an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      This Detective Story Club edition 2018

      First published in Great Britain as The Announcer by Hurst and Blackett 1944

      ‘The Alarm Bell’ first published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine by Mercury Publications, Inc. 1945

      Introduction © Martin Edwards 2018

      Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2018

      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: 9780008265342

      Ebook Edition © September 2018 ISBN: 9780008265359

      Version: 2018-04-11

       Dedication

      FOR

      R. E. SIMONS

      (In Rome)

      AFFECTIONATELY

       Although the descriptions of Broadcasting House are authentic and come from first-hand experience, all the characters in this book are entirely fictitious. No portrayal of any BBC announcer, or any other person, is in any way intended.

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Introduction

       Chapter I

       Chapter II

       Chapter III

       Chapter IV

       Chapter V

      

       Chapter VI

      

       Chapter VII

      

       Chapter VIII

      

       Chapter IX

      

       Chapter X

      

       Chapter XI

      

       Chapter XII

      

       Chapter XIII

      

       Chapter XIV

      

       Chapter XV

      

       Chapter XVI

      

       Chapter XVII

      

       Chapter XVIII

      

       Chapter XIX

      

       Chapter XX

      

       Chapter XXI

      

       Chapter XXII

      

       Chapter XXIII