Detective and mystery stories, English
THE COMING OF MR. QUIN THE SHADOW ON THE GLASS AT THE BELLS AND MOTLEY THE SIGN IN THE SKY THE SOUL OF THE CROUPIER THE WORLD'S END THE VOICE IN THE DARK THE FACE OF HELEN THE DEAD HARLEQUIN THE BIRD WITH THE BROKEN WING THE MAN FROM THE SEA HARLEQUIN'S LANE
THE COMING OF MR. QUIN THE SHADOW ON THE GLASS AT THE BELLS AND MOTLEY THE SIGN IN THE SKY THE SOUL OF THE CROUPIER THE WORLD'S END THE VOICE IN THE DARK THE FACE OF HELEN THE D...
2. Part 2"A common, but very curious phenomenon, that," observed Mr. Quin. "In moments of great stress, the mind focuses itself upon some quite unimportant matter which is remembered lon...
3. Part 3Just then they stepped out upon a high grassy knoll at some little distance from the house. With again something of the pride of the showman, Mr. Satterthwaite stretched out his...
4. Part 4He went across to the hat cupboard in the bedroom. There were several hats in it--the dead woman's hats. He took out one with a large brim and curling feathers--an elaborate Asc...
5. Part 5He was genuinely distressed. The thing was, he saw, inevitable. The very vagueness and unsatisfactoriness of the evidence against Stephen Grant made it the more difficult for hi...
6. Part 6"There couldn't be much doubt who fired the shot. As a matter of fact, the servants seemed to have lost their heads a bit. There was no one in the house to take charge. It was s...
7. Part 7Mr. Satterthwaite, who knew far more of feminine secrets than it is good for any man to know, rendered immediate homage to the art with which she was made up. Her complexion app...
8. Part 8Pierre Vaucher took no notice of her. He went on: "And so that young man of whom I tell you sank lower and lower. He drank more absinthe. The little shop was sold over his head....
9. Part 9"You drive yourself? One needs, I think, a good deal of nerve to do that round here. The turns are rather appalling. A moment of inattention, a brake that failed to hold, and--o...
10. Part 10"It is an old title," said Mr. Satterthwaite, "a very old title. One of the few that can descend in the female line. She is a baroness in her own right. Rather a romantic histor...
11. Part 11"Beatrice was the elder sister," said Mr. Satterthwaite. "By your uncle's death she would inherit everything and your mother would get nothing. Your mother claimed the wounded g...
12. Part 12It had just occurred to Mr. Satterthwaite that, owing to the remarkable beauty of Gillian West, his evening with Mr. Quin had somehow missed fire. As a rule, every meeting with...
13. Part 13Mr. Satterthwaite looked toward the empty chair at his side and, smiling to himself as though at some hidden joke the others could not see, he said quietly, "Sometimes one sees...
14. Part 14"I have got an idea--it may be just an idea but I think it hangs together. Supposing someone shot Lord Charnley. Shot him in the Terrace Room. Then he--and another person--dragg...
15. Part 15Outside the drawing room door, Mr. Satterthwaite bade Mrs. Graham a ceremonious good night. There were two staircases, one close at hand, the other at the end of a long corridor...
16. Part 16Well, at any rate he had done something for somebody. This island depressed him--why, oh! why had he deserted the Riviera which he knew so well, and where he was so well known?...
17. Part 17She was silent for a minute, brooding. Then she said with a little smile, "It is such a long time since I have talked with anyone--such a long time! I do not apologize. You came...
18. Part 18"Supposing that, after all, that man loved his young wife. Love can make devils of men as well as angels. She had a girlish adoration for him, but he could never touch the woman...
19. Part 19Mr. Satterthwaite shook his head very decidedly. "My years will excuse me." A brilliant idea struck him. "A table napkin under the arm. There I am, an elderly waiter who has see...