FRANCIS DURBRIDGE
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LONG 1948
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Contents
CHAPTER I: Death at the Brains Trust
CHAPTER II: Paul Temple Takes Over
CHAPTER III: Steve Finds a Treasure
CHAPTER V: Concerning Doctor Kohima
CHAPTER VII: Cyanide Is no Tonic!
CHAPTER VIII: Carl Lathom Is Perturbed
CHAPTER X: Ordeal for Mrs. Trevelyan
CHAPTER XI: Doctor Kohima Intervenes
CHAPTER XIII: Mr. Lathom Receives a Visitor
CHAPTER XIV: No Picnic at Claywood Mill
CHAPTER XV: Forbes to the Rescue
CHAPTER XVI: Appointment With Rex
ARTHUR MONTAGUE WEBB had occupied the position of ticket inspector for over fifteen years. It was a position of which he was more than a little conscious, as those unfortunate passengers who tried travelling ‘first’ on a third-class ticket had reason to aware. Even during the war years, when he fought his way endlessly down jammed corridors, his attitude seldom relaxed. Very occasionally, he might install a harmless old lady in a first-class compartment, with an apologetic and slightly anxious glance at the other occupants.
Mr. Webb’s raucous, ‘Tickets, please!’ echoed down the corridors of the Manchester–Euston express one rough night in the late autumn. He paused to pull up a window in the corridor which was admitting a half-gale, then opened the door of a compartment which had a single occupant who was stretched full length along the seat. The occupant of the carriage was rather a dark young man of about twenty-seven, with unruly black hair and glistening white teeth, which he exposed in a pleasant smile. He seemed in no way upset at the inspector’s intrusion.
‘Sorry to wake you, sir,’ said Mr. Webb mechanically. It was his inevitable formula on night trains.
‘That’s all right,’ yawned the young man, fumbling in his pocket for his ticket. ‘Lordy, I was hard on!’
Mr. Webb’s ears, attuned to dialects from every corner of the country, immediately registered the young man as being of Welsh origin.