on id="u079a7f5f-df09-5968-8bd3-a730c18145d9">
FRANCIS DURBRIDGE
Back Room Girl
PLUS
Light-Fingers
AND
A Present from Paul Temple
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MELVYN BARNES
an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
1 London Bridge Street
London SE1 9GF
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
Chapter II: Discovery of no Man’s Cove
Chapter V: Chief Inspector Leyland Explains
Chapter VIII: A Shot in the Dark
Chapter IX: Smugglers and Monks
Chapter X: The Man With the Handcart
Chapter XII: Strange Behaviour at the Inn
Chapter XIII: Midnight Rendezvous
Chapter XV: The Man in the Combe
Chapter XVI: Charlie Gets a Shock
Chapter XIX: Ordeal by Torture
Chapter XXIII: Through the Tunnel