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Name: The Case of the Journeying Boy
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Author: Michael Innes

📘 The Case of the Journeying Boy by Michael Innes

Humphrey Paxton, the son of one of Britain's leading atomic boffins, has taken to carrying a shotgun to 'shoot plotters and blackmailers and spies'. His new tutor, the plodding Mr Thewless, suggests that Humphrey might be overdoing it somewhat. But when a man is found shot dead at a cinema, Mr Thewless is plunged into a nightmare world of lies, kidnapping and murder - and grave matters of national security.

First publish date: 1949

Authors: Michael Innes

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