# The amateur crime

Author: Berkeley, Anthony, 1893-1971

Genre: Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72675

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+amateur+crime+Berkeley&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Dress-ties did not take kindly to Guy. When a dress-tie found itself encircling a collar belonging to Guy a devil entered into it. All dress-ties were like this with Guy. They knew he had met his master, and they became as wax in his hands. They melted, they drooped, they languished, they slid, and the means they employed to prevent the ends of their bows from ever coming even were a manifestation of the triumph of matter over mind. A South African negro, seeing a dress-tie pursuing its eel-like antics in Guy’s impotent hands would have had no hesitation in falling down on his knees and worshipping it on the spot, and quite rightly; one of Guy’s dress-ties could have given pounds to any o...

## Chapters

- [Chapter VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-amateur-crime-72675/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-amateur-crime-72675/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-amateur-crime-72675/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-amateur-crime-72675/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-amateur-crime-72675/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-amateur-crime-72675/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-amateur-crime-72675/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-amateur-crime-72675/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-amateur-crime-72675/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-amateur-crime-72675/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-amateur-crime-72675/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-amateur-crime-72675/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-amateur-crime-72675/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-amateur-crime-72675/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-amateur-crime-72675/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-amateur-crime-72675/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-amateur-crime-72675/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-amateur-crime-72675/chapters/1/index.md)