COLLINS CRIME CLUB
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First published in Great Britain by Victor Gollancz 1948
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Table of Contents
‘Sanford Angelorum all change,’ said the station-master. ‘Sanford Angelorum, all change.’
After a moment’s thought: ‘Terminus,’ he added, and retired from the scene through a door marked PRIVATE.
Gervase Fen, dozing alone in a narrow, stuffy compartment whose cushions, when stirred, emitted a haze of black dust, woke and roused himself.
He peered out of the window into the summer twilight. A stunted,