Choice of Evils

by E. X. Ferrars

  In his place, coming back from a travel agent where he had just been booking a trip round the world, beginning with Singapore and Australia, he started muttering to him-self another jingle from the Bab Ballads.

  ‘A very good girl was Emily Jane,

  Jimmy was good and true,

  John was a very good man in the main,

  And I am a good man too …’

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Ferrars, E. X.

  A choice of evils: an Andrew Basnett mystery/E.X. Ferrars.

  p. cm.

  I. Title.

  PR6003.R458C46 1997

  823′.912—dc20 96-34823

  CIP

  eISBN: 978-0-307-48287-7

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