title: Classic Crime Stories (Collector's Library)
author: David Stuart Davies
description: David Stuart Davies (born 1946) is a British writer. He worked as a teacher of English before becoming a full-time editor, writer, and playwright. Davies has written extensively about Sherlock Holmes, both fiction and non-fiction. He is the editor of Red Herrings, the monthly in-house publication of the Crime Writers' Association.
zlib_text: **BELOW THE CLOCK**
  
  A STORY OF CRIME
  
  BY
  
  J. V. TURNER
  
  WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
  
  DAVID BRAWN
  
  Copyright
  
  COLLINS CRIME CLUB
  
  an imprint of HarperCollins _Publishers_ Ltd
  
  1 London Bridge Street
  
  London SE1 9GF
  
  [www.harpercollins.co.uk](http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)
  
  First published in Great Britain for The Crime Club
  
  by W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1936
  
  Introduction © David Brawn 2018
  
  Cover layout design © HarperCollins _Publishers_ Ltd 2018
  
  A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.
  
  This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents
  portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to
  actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
  
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