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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Part One
Invitation
Abigail
Part Two
Cast of Characters
Fair Play Rules
Father Knox’s introduction to The Best Detective Stories of 1928–29 (Faber, 1929):
S. S. Van Dine’s ‘Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories’, which appeared in The American Magazine in September 1928:
Chapter One: The Detective Arrives
Chapter Two: The Evidence of the Doctor
Chapter Three: The Evidence of the Murder Scene
News Report
Chapter Four: The Evidence of the Sister
Email
Chapter Five: A Locked-Room Lecture
Abigail
Chapter Six: The Evidence of the Staff
Condolences
Chapter Seven: The Arrival of the Inspector
Condolences
Chapter Eight: The Evidence of the School Friend
Email
Chapter Nine: A Visit from the Aunt
Abigail
Chapter Ten: The Evidence of the Former Fiancée
Abigail
Chapter Eleven: The Evidence of the Employee
Abigail
Chapter Twelve: The Evidence of the Childhood Friend
Email
Chapter Thirteen: Bell and Sacker Go to an Inn
Abigail
Chapter Fourteen: The Return of the Police
Abigail
Chapter Fifteen: The Evidence of the Guests’ Rooms
Email
Chapter Sixteen: The Evidence of the Engaged Couple
Abigail
Chapter Seventeen: A Recitation of the Facts
Abigail
Chapter Eighteen: A Second Interview with Barbara
Abigail
Chapter Nineteen: A Visit from a Psychic
Abigail
Chapter Twenty: A Second Interview with Abigail
Abigail
Chapter Twenty-One: The Police Make an Arrest
Abigail
Chapter Twenty-Two: Bell Conducts an Experiment
Challenge to the Reader
Abigail
Chapter Twenty-Three: A Solution
Abigail
Chapter Twenty-Four: Another Solution
Abigail
Chapter Twenty-Five: Another Solution
Abigail
Chapter Twenty-Six: And Another
Abigail
Chapter Twenty-Seven: And Another
Abigail
Chapter Twenty-Eight: And Then One More
Part Three
Abigail
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
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