Mystery in London Helen Brooke Illustrated by Ron Tiner OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESSOxford University Press Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6D? Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bogota Buenos Aires Calcutta Cape Town Chennai DaresSalaam Delhi Florence HongKong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi Paris Sao Paulo Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto Warsaw and associated companies in Berlin. Ibadan OXFORD and OXFORD ENGLISH. are trade marks of Oxford University Press ISBN 019423175 5 © Oxford University Press 2000 First published 2000 No unauthorized photocopying All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Oxford University Press. ‘This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which itis published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Ilustrated by Ron Tiner Printed in Hong Kong Oxford Bookworms Starters (250 headwords) Original fiction for students starting to read in English. Stories are carefully graded and supported by clear, high-quality illustrations. Oxford Bookworms Library A wide range of original and adapted stories, both classic and modern, which take learners from elementary to advanced level through six carefully graded language stages. Oxford Bookworms Playscripts A range of plays, designed both for reading and performingin the classroom. Oxford Bookworms Factfiles Original readers giving varied and interesting information about a range of non-fiction topics. Oxford Bookworm Collection Fiction by well known classic and modern authors, Texts arenot abridged or simplified in any way.