Brebner Percy James. Christopher Quarles: College Professor and Master Detective
CHAPTER I. THE AFFAIR OF THE IVORY BOXES
CHAPTER II. THE IDENTITY OF THE FINAL VICTIM
CHAPTER III. THE MYSTERY OF THE CIRCULAR COUNTERS
CHAPTER IV. THE STRANGE CASE OF MICHAEL HALL
CHAPTER V. THE EVIDENCE OF THE CIGARETTE-END
CHAPTER VI. THE MYSTERY OF "OLD MRS JARDINE"
CHAPTER VII. THE DEATH-TRAP IN THE TUDOR ROOM
CHAPTER VIII. THE MYSTERY OF CROSS ROADS FARM
CHAPTER IX. THE CONUNDRUM OF THE GOLF LINKS
CHAPTER X. THE DIAMOND NECKLACE SCANDAL
CHAPTER XI. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF DR. SMITH
CHAPTER XII. THE AFFAIR OF THE STOLEN GOLD
CHAPTER XIII. THE WILL OF THE ECCENTRIC MR. FRISBY
CHAPTER XIV. THE CASE OF THE MURDERED FINANCIER
CHAPTER XV. THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF THE FLORENTINE CHEST
CHAPTER XVI. THE SEARCH FOR THE MISSING FORTUNE
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I soon fell into the habit of going to see Professor Quarles. As an excuse I talked over cases with him, but he seldom volunteered an opinion, often was obviously uninterested. Truth to tell, I was not there for his opinion, but to see his granddaughter. A detective in love sounds something like an absurdity, but such was my case, and, since Zena's manner did not suggest that she was particularly interested in me, my love affair seemed rather a hopeless one.
My association with Christopher Quarles has, however, led to the solution of some strange mysteries, and, since my own achievements are sufficiently well known, I may confine myself to those cases which, single-handed, I should have failed to solve. I know that in many of them I was credited with having unraveled the mystery, but this was only because Professor Quarles persisted in remaining in the background. If I did the spade work, the deductions were his.
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He was going forward again. The hollow was surrounded by perpendicular walls of sand and chalk; it was a pit, in fact, which Nature had filled with vegetation. The way we had come seemed the only way into it.
"Ah! this looks promising," Quarles said suddenly.
