The Young Offender

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Inc., 3300 Clipper Mill Road, Baltimore 11, Md, U.S.A. Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia

First published simultaneously by Duckworth and Penguin Books 1967

Copyright © D. J. West, 1967 Made and printed in Great Britain by Cox & Wyman Ltd, London, Fakenham and Reading Set in Monotype Plantin

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