Mr. Chitterwick watched it all, and a clearer case never existed, but—was the elderly lady actually poisoned by the red-haired man?

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'The car drew up almost abreast, and Falmer was ready at the door. Then Travers switched the side lights on and the woman halted in her tracks and turned towards the forward the car with frightened eyes. Then she came forward, as if to look inside, and Travers and Wharton watched ...

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Dr Ringwood felt thoroughly exhausted. When he had taken on the locum job, as a change from his specialist's work, he had not bargained for a 'flu epidemic. But at least he felt reasonably secure on that night of very thick fog. Unless something very urgent happened, he believed he ...

The new Sir Geoffrey Buller is earning his living in an American office when he unexpectedly inherits the title and Forde Manor, with its collection of priceless pictures. Betty Stanton, who has been left a penniless widow, is glad to take a post as his lady housekeeper. She is surprised ...

One fine June afternoon the passenger steamer Chichester is halfway to Dieppe when she encounters a yacht, the Nymph, in mid-channel. The Nymph appears to be unmanned, and closer inspection reveals the sinister truth: her only occupants are two corpses. Was it suicide or murder? And ...

SIR JOHN MAGILL, a well-known public figure in Ulster, sets out to return to Ireland by the Stranraer-Larne route, but he never reaches his destination. The local police can find no trace of him, and Inspector French is called in to clear up what turns out to be one of the most baffling ...

Through the medium of Mr Crofts the most famous cases in which that brilliant investigator - Inspector Frence - was concerned are being recorded, and of these The Cheyne Mystery is the second. When young Cheyne first found that a dangerous gang of criminals had an unpleasant interest ...