About the book
A businessman’s murder draws investigators into suspicious relationships and concealed motives.
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- AN OFFER REJECTED · 12 minutes
- THE HUNTER DECLINES HIS QUARRY · 13 minutes
- THE MAN WHO LOVED LYNE · 9 minutes
- MURDER · 13 minutes
- FOUND IN LYNE'S POCKET · 10 minutes
- THE MOTHER OF ODETTE RIDER · 12 minutes
- THE WOMAN IN THE CASE · 13 minutes
- THE SILENCING OF SAM STAY · 11 minutes
- WHERE THE FLOWERS CAME FROM · 12 minutes
- THE WOMAN AT ASHFORD · 7 minutes
- "THORNTON LYNE IS DEAD" · 8 minutes
- THE HOSPITAL BOOK · 12 minutes
- TWO SHOTS IN THE NIGHT · 11 minutes
- THE SEARCH OF MILBURGH'S COTTAGE · 15 minutes
- THE OWNER OF THE PISTOL · 5 minutes
- THE HEIR · 10 minutes
- THE MISSING REVOLVER · 15 minutes
- THE FINGER PRINTS · 11 minutes
- LING CHU TELLS THE TRUTH · 14 minutes
- MR. MILBURGH SEES IT THROUGH · 9 minutes
- COVERING THE TRAIL · 6 minutes
- THE HEAVY WALLET · 12 minutes
- THE NIGHT VISITOR · 7 minutes
- THE CONFESSION OF ODETTE RIDER · 9 minutes
- MILBURGH'S LAST BLUFF · 9 minutes
- IN MRS. RIDER'S ROOM · 10 minutes
- THE LAUGH IN THE NIGHT · 11 minutes
- THE THUMB-PRINT · 8 minutes
- THE THEORY OF LING CHU · 13 minutes
- WHO KILLED MRS. RIDER · 9 minutes
- SAM STAY TURNS UP · 9 minutes
- THE DIARY OF THORNTON LYNE · 15 minutes
- LING CHU—TORTURER · 12 minutes
- THE ARREST · 7 minutes
- MILBURGH'S STORY · 17 minutes
- AT HIGHGATE CEMETERY · 7 minutes
- LING CHU RETURNS · 10 minutes
- CHAPTER THE LAST. THE STATEMENT OF SAM STAY · 13 minutes