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ForewordNone of the characters, clubs, institutions nor intelligence organizations I have described here or elsewhere exists, or has existed to my knowledge in real life. I wish to make that very clear.My thanks are due to the Radio Society of Great Britain and to Mr R. E. MoUand, to the editors...

CHAPTER 1 THE MURDER OF MRS ROCKCLIFF IT HAPPENED at Mitford some time during Monday night. Sprawled on the northern bank of the River Murray, and in the State of New Sou± Wales, Mitford is wide open to the cold southerlies of winter and the hot northerlies of summer. A broad tree-shaded...

His flight had been delayed for three hours at Nairobi, and despite four large whiskies he slept only fitfully until the intercontinental Boeing touched down at Heathrow. Johnny Lance felt as though someone had thrown a handful of grit in each eye, and his mood was ugly as he came through the...

His flight had been delayed for three hours at Nairobi, and despite four large whiskies he slept only fitfully until the intercontinental Boeing touched down at Heathrow. Johnny Lance felt as though someone had thrown a handful of grit in each eye, and his mood was ugly as he came through the...

CHAPTER 1THE MURDER OF MRS ROCKCLIFFIt happened at Mitford somé time during Monday night. Sprawled on the northern bank of the River Murray, and in the State of New South Wales, Mitford is wide open to the cold southerlies of winter and the hot northerlies of summer. A broad tree-shaded boulevard...

Foreword I will not deny that this story was suggested to me by the action in World War I, when the German mercantile raider Königsberg was sunk in the Kikunya channel of the Rufiji delta by ships of the Royal Navy. However, I will most emphatically deny that the rogues and scoundrels depicted...