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      The Breaking Point

      by Daphne Du Maurier
      Published
      Dec 1959
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
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      326
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      LADY BEWARE!

      Every Sunday afternoon James Fenton and his wife took their usual walk—every Sunday afternoon. The pattern never changed.

      Then Fenton reached his breaking point.

      The idea of escape had never occurred to him before. But suddenly something clicked in his brain.

      "Now, at this minute," he thought, "one gesture of mine might change someone's future. Theft, fire, faces smashed in…murder."

      So Fenton chose No. 8 Boulting Street as a starting point for the greatest adventure of his life.

      He rang the bell and a young woman answered. Fenton had the impulse to say, "I have come to strange you." Instead he took off his hat and smiled. "Do you rent rooms?" he asked.

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      General Fiction

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      Gothic

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      First Edition Dec 1971 Pocket ISBN13 9780671781224 ISBN10 0671781227
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      Jan 1970 Penguin ISBN13 9780140030853 ISBN10 0140030859
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      May 2009 Virago Press (UK) ISBN13 9781844085750 ISBN10 1844085759
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      Sep 1971 Gollancz (UK) ISBN13 9780575013339 ISBN10 0575013338
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      Dec 2013 Little, Brown & Company ISBN13 9780316253598 ISBN10 0316253596
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      Oct 1989 Chivers ISBN13 9780745171883 ISBN10 0745171885
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