Crime Story Collection

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Crime Story Collection
Level 4 
Retold by John and Celia Turvey
Series Editors: Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter 

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Pearson Education limited 
Edinburgh Gate, Harlow, 
Essex CM20 2JE, England 
and Associated Companies throughout the world. 
ISBN 0 582 419190 
This compilation first published in Longman Fiction 1998
This edition first published 1999 
NEW EDITION 
5 7 9 10 8 6 
The story “Three is a Lucky Number” © Margery Allingham is reproduced by
permission of Curtis Brown, London on behalf of P. & M.Youngman Carter Ltd.
The story “Full Circle” by Sue Grafton is reprinted with the permission of Abner
Stein, London. The story “How’s Your Mother?” © Simon Brett 1980 is from 
A Box of
Tricks, 
published by Victor Gollancz Ltd. The story “At the Old Swimming Hole”
© 1986 Sara Paretsky was first published in 
Mean Streets: The Second Private Eye
Writers of America Anthology, 
edited by Robert J. Randisi, published by Mysterious
Press. All rights reserved. First published in the UK by Hamish Hamilton Limited.
The Patricia Highsmith story “Slowly, Slowly in the Wind” was first published in
Ellery Queens Mystery Magazine 1976. Copyright © 1993 Diogenes Verlag AG,
Zurich. The Patricia Highsmith story “Woodrow Wilsons Neck Tie” was first
published in 
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine 1972. 
Copyright © 1993 Diogenes
Verlag AG, Zurich. The story “The Absence of Emily” by Jack Ritchie is reprinted
with kind permission of the Larry Sterring & Jack Byrne Literary Agency, Milwaukee,
United States of America. The story “The Inside Story” © 1993 Colin Dexter. This
abridgement and simplification © Addison Wesley Longman Limited 1997. 
This edition copyright © Penguin Books Ltd 1999
Illustrations by Les Edwards
Cover design by Bender Richardson White 
Set in 11/14pt Bembo
Printed in China
SWTC/05 
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in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means,
electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the
prior written permission of the Publishers. 
 
 
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Penguin Books Ltd, both companies being subsidiaries of Pearson Plc 
For a complete list of the titles available in the Penguin Readers series please write to your local 
Pearson Education office or to: Penguin Readers Marketing Department. 
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