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J. JEFFERSON FARJEON
Murderer’s Trail
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 1931 Copyright © Estate of J. Jefferson Farjeon 1931 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: 9780008155919 Ebook Edition © August 2016 ISBN: 9780008155926 Version: 2016-06-28 Table of Contents
Chapter 3: The Stomach of a Ship
Chapter 4: Confidences in the Dark
Chapter 5: What Happened at Hammersmith
Chapter 8: In the Captain’s Cabin
Chapter 10: The Man with the Sack
Chapter 12: Hanging Over Space
Chapter 17: The End of the Voyage
Chapter 19: The Mountain Track
Chapter 20: Arrival at the ‘First Hotel’
Chapter 21: The Conference in the Hut
Chapter 22: The Binding of Ben
Chapter 23: The Chamber of Horrors
Chapter 25: How Mr Sims Killed Ben
Chapter 26: Life Grows Worse and Worse
Chapter 27: The End of the Bridge