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Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Inc, 7110 Ambassador Road, Baltimore, Maryland 21207, U.S.A. Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia

First published by Hodder & Stoughton 1969 Published in Penguin Books 1972 Copyright © Andrew Field, 1969

For Michele

The characters in this book are entirely imaginary and bear no relation to any missing person.

Made and printed in Great Britain by Hunt Barnard Printing Ltd, Aylesbury, Bucks Set in 9/11pt Times

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser