# The three taps

Author: Knox, Ronald Arbuthnott, 1888-1957

Genre: Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73198

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+three+taps+Knox&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The principles of insurance, they tell us, were not hidden from our Anglo-Saxon forefathers. How anybody had the enterprise in those rough-and-tumble days to guarantee a client against “fire, water, robbery or other calamity” remains a problem for the historian; the more so as it appears that mathematical calculations were first applied to the business by the eminent John de Witt. In our own time, at any rate, the insurance companies have woven a golden net under the tight-rope walk of existence; if life is a lottery, the prudent citizen faces it with the consciousness that he is backed both ways. Had the idea been thoroughly grasped in those remoter periods, no doubt but Alfred’s hostess...

## Chapters

- [Chapter XXV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Chapter VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/19/index.md)
- [mill. Next the disused mill-wheel there was a little room or shed,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Chapter III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Chapter IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-three-taps-73198/chapters/10/index.md)