J. JEFFERSON FARJEON
Murderer’s Trail
COLLINS CRIME CLUB
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First published in Great Britain for Crime Club by W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1931
Copyright © Estate of J. Jefferson Farjeon 1931
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Source ISBN: 9780008155919
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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