The D Case

Contents

Also by Fruttero & Lucentini

PART ONE THE APRIL NUMBER

1. The Ruin Lies There in the Rain

2. Thus Ends the First Chapter

II. A Dean, and a Chapter Also

3. On This Ambiguous Note

III. The Nuns’ House

4. If Instead of Investigators

V. Mr. Durdles and Friend

5. The Final Speech Receives

PART TWO The May and June Numbers

6. Anybody Who Ever Spent

VI. Philanthropy in Minor Canon Corner

VII. More Confidences Than One

7. The Menacing Conclusion

VIII. Daggers Drawn

IX. Birds in the Bush

8. After the Lightning Spurt

X. Smoothing the Way

XI. A Picture and a Ring

XII. A Night with Durdles

9. At the End of the Imprinting

PART THREE The July and August Numbers

10. What is the Atmosphere of a Convention?

XIII. Both at Their Best

XIV. When Shall These Three Meet Again?

11. The Thin Melancholy Man

12. The Debate on the ‘Mystery Number’

XVII. Philanthropy, Professional and Unprofessional

XVIII. A Settler in Cloisterham

XIX. Shadow on the Sun-Dial

XX. Divers Flights

PART FOUR The Last Number

13. It Should Now be the Fourth Day

XXI. A Gritty State of Things Comes On

XXII. The Dawn Again

14. We Had Reached the Circus Maximus

15. If a Visitor to the Roman Forum

16. It is Nine A.M., Reader

17. Waiting for Poirot