“There’s some young gents staying up at Cobblers,” Yates said. “I did think as it might be some of them up to their larks.”
“If it’s that,” Bobby said, hoping that it might be so, “they’ll be sorry for it before I’ve done with them. There is such a thing as causing a public mischief.” He paused and added, almost against his will: “I don’t believe it’s that way, though,” and when he turned to look again at the knife lying on the table he could almost have sworn that the features of the figurine had only just returned to immobility from a smile of evil, secret joy.
Published by Dean Street Press 2017
Copyright © 1951 E.R. Punshon
Introduction Copyright © 2017 Curtis Evans
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This ebook is published by licence, issued under the UK Orphan Works Licensing Scheme.
First published in 1951 by Victor Gollancz
Cover by DSP
ISBN 978 1 911579 00 7
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