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A. Fielding. The Case of the Two Pearl Necklaces
The Case of the Two Pearl Necklaces
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CHAPTER I. A Wedding Is Announced
CHAPTER II. Violet Finch Wears Some Fine Pearls at a Dance
CHAPTER III. Pearls Can Be at Once Very Useful and Very Dangerous
CHAPTER IV. A Marriage Takes Place
CHAPTER V. A Private Investigator Is Called In
CHAPTER VI. Arthur Walsh Gets a Very Curious Message, and Scotland Yard Is Summoned to a Murder Case
CHAPTER VII. Chief Inspector Pointer Gets to Work
CHAPTER VIII. A Key-Ring Is Missed
CHAPTER IX. Pointer Finds the Missing Keys
CHAPTER X. The Fingerprints Seem to Link Up the Keys With a Certain Person
CHAPTER XI. A Mother's Grief Does Not Appear to Be Overwhelming
CHAPTER XII. An Advertisement Is Found in Duplicate
CHAPTER XIII. Evidence Accumulates
CHAPTER XIV. An Alibi Goes West
CHAPTER XV. Marks of Gilding Are Found on a Cloth
CHAPTER XVI. Another Possible Motive Is Discovered
CHAPTER XVII. Arthur Gets a Hard Knock
CHAPTER XVIII. The Pearls Are Found
THE END
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A. Fielding
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Colonel Walsh had the masculine idea that family plain speaking was his own prerogative, that as long as he did not swear at things no one else should do so. He never could understand why a king of Israel needed to get a prophet to curse the people for him...That always seemed to him one of the few things a man should do for himself, if done at all.
"Oh, I've been to the Little Owls. A couple of years back every one went. That Finch woman made a sinful amount of money out of it. Simply incredible profits Thousands there every night...They gambled for enormous stakes upstairs in her private flat, it was whispered. Now I hear that the place is running down as speedily as it shot up. And to think that Arthur—of all young men! I thought he, at least, was sensible!"
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