London Murder Mysteries - Boxed Set. Freeman Wills Crofts

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       Freeman Wills Crofts

      London Murder Mysteries - Boxed Set

      The Cask, The Ponson Case & The Pit-Prop Syndicate

      e-artnow, 2020

       Contact: [email protected]

      EAN 4064066392178

Table of Contents

       The Cask

       The Ponson Case

       The Pit-Prop Syndicate

      The Cask

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       PART I—LONDON

       CHAPTER I. A STRANGE CONSIGNMENT

       CHAPTER II. INSPECTOR BURNLEY ON THE TRACK

       CHAPTER III. THE WATCHER ON THE WALL

       CHAPTER IV. A MIDNIGHT INTERVIEW

       CHAPTER V. FELIX TELLS A STORY

       CHAPTER VI. THE ART OF DETECTION

       CHAPTER VII. THE CASK AT LAST

       CHAPTER VIII. THE OPENING OF THE CASK

       PART II—PARIS

       CHAPTER IX. M. LE CHEF DE LA SÛRETÉ

       CHAPTER X. WHO WROTE THE LETTER?

       CHAPTER XI. MM. DUPIERRE ET CIE.

       CHAPTER XII. AT THE GARE ST. LAZARE

       CHAPTER XIII. THE OWNER OF THE DRESS

       CHAPTER XIV. M. BOIRAC MAKES A STATEMENT

       CHAPTER XV. THE HOUSE IN THE AVENUE DE L’ALMA

       CHAPTER XVI. INSPECTOR BURNLEY UP AGAINST IT

       CHAPTER XVII. A COUNCIL OF WAR

       CHAPTER XVIII. LEFARGE HUNTS ALONE

       CHAPTER XIX. THE TESTING OF AN ALIBI

       CHAPTER XX. SOME DAMNING EVIDENCE

       PART III—LONDON AND PARIS

       CHAPTER XXI. A NEW POINT OF VIEW

       CHAPTER XXII. FELIX TELLS A SECOND STORY

       CHAPTER XXIII. CLIFFORD GETS TO WORK

       CHAPTER XXIV. MR. GEORGES LA TOUCHE

       CHAPTER XXV. DISAPPOINTMENT

       CHAPTER XXVI. A CLUE AT LAST

       CHAPTER XXVII. LA TOUCHE’S DILEMMA

       CHAPTER XXVIII. THE UNRAVELLING OF THE WEB

       CHAPTER XXIX. A DRAMATIC DÉNOUEMENT

       CHAPTER XXX. CONCLUSION

      PART I—LONDON

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      CHAPTER I

      A STRANGE CONSIGNMENT

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      Mr. Avery, managing

      director of the Insular and Continental Steam Navigation Company, had just arrived at his office. He glanced at his inward letters, ran his eye over his list of engagements for the day, and inspected the return of the movements of his Company’s steamers. Then, after spending a few moments in thought, he called his chief clerk, Wilcox.

      ‘I see the Bullfinch is in this morning from Rouen,’ he said. ‘I take it she’ll have that consignment of wines for Norton and Banks?’

      ‘She has,’ replied the chief clerk, ‘I’ve just rung up the dock office to inquire.’

      ‘I think we ought to have it specially checked from here. You remember all the trouble they gave us about the last lot. Will you send some reliable man down? Whom can you spare?’

      ‘Broughton could go. He has done it before.’

      ‘Well, see to it, will you, and then send in Miss Johnson, and I shall go through the mail.’

      The office was the headquarters of the Insular and Continental Steam Navigation Company, colloquially known as the I. and C., and occupied the second floor of a large block of buildings at the western end of Fenchurch Street. The Company was an important concern, and owned a fleet of some thirty steamers ranging from 300 to 1000 tons burden, which traded between London and the smaller Continental ports. Low freights was their specialty,