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J. JEFFERSON FARJEON
Ben on the Job
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 1952 Copyright © Estate of J. Jefferson Farjeon 1952 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: 9780008156039 Ebook Edition © August 2016 ISBN: 9780008156046 Version: 2016-06-14 Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Misbehaviour of Two Thumbs
Chapter 2: Strange Partnership
Chapter 4: The Lady of the Picture
Chapter 6: The Kentons at Home
Chapter 7: Conversation on a Doorstep
Chapter 10: Concerning Two Others
Chapter 11: Start of a Bad Day
Chapter 12: Waiting for Maudie
Chapter 14: Back in Drewet Road
Chapter 17: What Happened at Euston
Chapter 19: Conference Over Coffee
Chapter 21: Ben Listens to the Impossible
Chapter 23: Completion of the Job
When Ben had got up that morning—getting
