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  So now I’m going down there for tea. But it worries me. Something niggles me. I’m not sure what it is.

  With people, you never know. You never know how they’re going to turn out. I mean, she might be all right. She might not.

  But my mother said Never trust a living soul.

  And maybe she was right when she said that.

  About the Author

  Campbell Armstrong (1944–2013) was an international bestselling author best known for his thriller series featuring British counterterrorism agent Frank Pagan, and his quartet of Glasgow Novels, featuring detective Lou Perlman. Two of these, White Rage and Butcher, were nominated for France’s Prix du Polar. Armstrong’s novels Assassins & Victims and The Punctual Rape won Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Awards.

  Born in Glasgow and educated at the University of Sussex, Armstrong worked as a book editor in London and taught creative writing at universities in the United States.

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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 1969 by Campbell Black

  Cover design by Angela Goddard

  ISBN: 978-1-5040-0411-4

  This edition published in 2015 by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

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