# The Deaves Affair

Author: Footner, Hulbert, 1879-1944

Genre: Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31361

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Deaves+Affair+Footner&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Evan Weir's pipe was foul; he threw it down with an exclamation of disgust. Its foulness was symbolic; everything was out of kilter. He looked at the picture he had been painting for a week--rotten! It was a still life; a broken jar and three books on a rag of Persian embroidery. Picking up his pen-knife he deliberately cut the canvas out of the stretcher, and setting a match to a corner of it, tossed it in the empty stove. He paced up and down the room wondering what the devil was the matter with him; he couldn't work; he couldn't read; his friends bored him; life was as flat as beer dregs.

## Chapters

- [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-deaves-affair-31361/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-deaves-affair-31361/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-deaves-affair-31361/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-deaves-affair-31361/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-deaves-affair-31361/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-deaves-affair-31361/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-deaves-affair-31361/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-deaves-affair-31361/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-deaves-affair-31361/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-deaves-affair-31361/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-deaves-affair-31361/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-deaves-affair-31361/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-deaves-affair-31361/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-deaves-affair-31361/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-deaves-affair-31361/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-deaves-affair-31361/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-deaves-affair-31361/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-deaves-affair-31361/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-deaves-affair-31361/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-deaves-affair-31361/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-deaves-affair-31361/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-deaves-affair-31361/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-deaves-affair-31361/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-deaves-affair-31361/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-deaves-affair-31361/chapters/7/index.md)