# The skeleton key

Author: Capes, Bernard, 1854-1918; Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 [Author of introduction, etc.]

Genre: Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68628

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+skeleton+key+Capes&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Some few years ago, in the month of September, I happened to be kicking my heels in Paris, awaiting the arrival there of my friend Hugo Kennett. We had both been due from the south, I from Vaucluse and Kennett from the Riviera, and the arrangement had been that we should meet together for a week in the capital before returning home. _Enfants perdus!_ Kennett was never anything but unpunctual, and he failed to turn up to time, or anywhere near it, at the rendezvous. I was a trifle hipped, as I had come to the end of my circular notes, and had rather looked to him to help me through with a passing difficulty; but there was nothing for it but to wait philosophically on, and to get, pending h...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-skeleton-key-68628/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-skeleton-key-68628/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-skeleton-key-68628/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-skeleton-key-68628/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-skeleton-key-68628/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-skeleton-key-68628/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-skeleton-key-68628/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-skeleton-key-68628/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-skeleton-key-68628/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-skeleton-key-68628/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-skeleton-key-68628/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-skeleton-key-68628/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-skeleton-key-68628/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-skeleton-key-68628/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-skeleton-key-68628/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-skeleton-key-68628/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-skeleton-key-68628/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-skeleton-key-68628/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-skeleton-key-68628/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-skeleton-key-68628/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-skeleton-key-68628/chapters/21/index.md)