Superintendent Battle was standing in the library at Wyvvern Abbey.George Lomax, seated before a desk overflowing with papers, was frowning portentous...
At 2.30 a little party met together in the Council Chamber: Bundle, Virginia, Superintendent Battle, M. Lemoine and Anthony Cade.No good waiting until...
You don’t mind, I suppose,” said Bundle after a minute or two, if I drive rather fast? I started later than I meant to do.”It had se...
Lord Caterham, Virginia and Bundle were sitting in the library after dinner. It was Tuesday evening. Some thirty hours had elapsed since Anthony&rsquo...
At ten o’clock on the morning of Wednesday, the 13th of October, Anthony Cade walked into Harridge’s Hotel and asked for Baron Lolopretjzy...
The clock in the Council Chamber struck nine.Well,” said Lord Caterham, with a deep sigh. Here they all are, just like little Bo Peep’s fl...
I suspected her from the first,” explained Anthony. There was a light in her room on the night of the murder. Afterwards, I wavered. I made inqu...
You owe us an explanation, I think, Mr. Cade,” said Herman Isaacstein, somewhat later in the evening.There’s nothing much to explain,&rdqu...
If you will go on, gentlemen, I will follow you in a minute,” said Anthony.He waited whilst the others filed out, and then turned to where Super...
Scene—Chimneys, 11 a.m. Thursday morning.Johnson, the police constable, with his coat off, digging.Something in the nature of a funeral feeling ...