Prelude For War

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PRELUDE

FOR WAR

LESLIE CHARTERIS

 

 

 

 

 

NEW YORK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PRELUDE FOR WAR

Copyright © 1938 by Leslie Charteris

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review, without permission in writing from the publisher.

All characters in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Military props for cover design courtesy of Jacques Noel Jacobsen Jr., Collector Antiquities, Inc.

An Ace Charter Book by arrangement with Doubleday and Company, Inc..

First Ace Charter Printing: July 1982

Printed simultaneously in Canada

 

PRELUDE FOR WAR

 

CONTENTS

 

 

 

 

I        How Simon Templar Went to a Fire, and

          Patricia Holm Heard of a Financier

II         How