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Margery Allingham. The China Governess
The China Governess
Table of Contents
Prologue. The Turk Street Mile
1. The Elopers
2. Dangerous Lady
3. Miss Thyrza’s Chair
4 “Above at a Window”
5. Off the Record
6. Justifiably Angry Young Man
7. Ebbfield Interlude
8. The Well House
9. The Stranger
10. Conference in the Morning
11. The Councillor
12. The Cobbler’s Shop
13 “The Top of the Police”
14. Kitchen Business
15. The Beanspiller
16. Indictment
17. The Boy in the Corner
18. Night Cap
19. Meeting Point
20. Eyewitness
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Margery Allingham
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“You and she came in together and saw the damage, did you?” he enquired gently, still holding the old man to him as if he were afraid he might fall. “Anyone else with you?”
“Only Reg Sloan. He lodges with us, see?” The old voice was thin and hollow. The significance of the scene had not yet registered upon him. He was still worrying about smaller things. “We was allowed to let the room seeing it was empty; we got permission, I told the Sergeant. Mr. Cornish knows. Reg got the permit from him. He went to see him—went to see him, I say, called at his house.”
