First Published February 1936 Reprinted March 1936 Reprinted April 1936 Cheap Edition (2s. 6d.) 1938 Reprinted November 1938 Published in Penguin Books 1944
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NOTE In criminal trials it is not customary for witnesses to remain in court during that part of the hearing which precedes their own testimony, but in Rex. v. Wedgwood in 1931 in point of fact they did.
None of the characters in this books are portraits of living people, not did the incidents here recorded ever take place.
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