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    Cheese (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
    Cheese (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
    Cheese (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
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    Cheese (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

    By Ethel Lina White

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    Ethel Lina White was a prolific author, and became one of the best-known crime writers in Britain and the US during the thirties and forties. Though best-remembered for her novels Some Must Watch and The Wheel Spins, her short fiction was also hugely popular, and 'Cheese' ranks amongst her best tales. Many of the crime and detective stories of the Victorians, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateNov 8, 2012
    ISBN9781447499756
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      Cheese (Fantasy and Horror Classics) - Ethel Lina White

      Cheese

      ETHEL LINA WHITE

      Ethel Lina White was born in Born in Abergavenny, Wales in 1876. She started writing as a child, contributing essays and poems to children’s papers. For many years, she worked at the Ministry of Pensions in London, but she quit in her late forties in order to pursue writing. Her first three works, published between 1927 and 1930, were mainstream novels. Her first crime novel, published in 1931, was Put Out the Light. From this point onwards, White was a prolific author, and became one of the best-known crime writers in Britain and the US during the thirties and forties. Her novels Some Must Watch and The Wheel Spins were both made into popular films, as The Spiral Staircase and The Lady Vanishes respectively. Her 1942 novel Midnight House was adapted into The Unseen (1945), based on a screenplay co-authored by Raymond Chandler. White died in London in 1944, aged 68.

      Cheese

      ETHEL LINA WHITE

      This story begins with a murder. It ends with a mousetrap.

      The murder can be disposed of in a paragraph. An attractive girl, carefully reared and educated for a future which held only a twisted throat. At the end of seven months, an unsolved mystery and a reward of £500.

      It is a long way from a murder to a mouse-trap – and one with no finger-posts; but the police knew every inch of the way. In spite of a prestige punctured by the press and public, they had solved the identity of the killer. There remained the problem of tracking this wary and treacherous rodent from his unknown sewer in the underworld into their trap.

      They failed repeatedly for lack of the right bait.

      And unexpectedly, one spring evening, the bait turned up in the person of a young girl.

      Cheese.

      Inspector Angus Duncan was alone

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