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Fergus Hume. The Mystery Queen
The Mystery Queen
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. A STRANGE VISITOR
CHAPTER II. A COMPLETE MYSTERY
CHAPTER III. DUTY BEFORE PLEASURE
CHAPTER IV. AN AMATEUR DETECTIVE
CHAPTER V. MUDDY WATER
CHAPTER VI. THE INVENTOR
CHAPTER VII. THE HERMIT LADIES
CHAPTER VIII. AVIATION
CHAPTER IX. MAHOMET'S COFFIN
CHAPTER X. ANOTHER MYSTERY
CHAPTER XI. ON THE TRAIL
CHAPTER XII. AN AMAZING ADVENTURE
CHAPTER XIII. A BOLD DETERMINATION
CHAPTER XIV. A BUSY AFTERNOON
CHAPTER XV. ABSOLUTE PROOF
CHAPTER XVI. DAN'S DIPLOMACY
CHAPTER XVII. AT BAY
CHAPTER XVIII. THE FLIGHT
CHAPTER XIX. TREACHERY
CHAPTER XX. QUEEN BEELZEBUB'S END
CHAPTER XXI. SUNSHINE
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Fergus Hume
Published by Good Press, 2022
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"My name is Halliday," said Dan hurriedly. "I am engaged to Miss Moon and we have just returned from the theatre to hear--to hear----" He caught sight of Moon's body seated in the desk-chair and drooping limply over the table. "Oh, it is true, then! He is dead. Good heavens! who murdered him?"
"How do you know that Sir Charles has been murdered?" asked the officer sternly. "Mr. Penn, the secretary, told me just now in the hall," said Dan, shaking himself free of the policeman. "He blurted it out like a fool, and Miss Moon has fainted. Mrs. Bolstreath has taken her upstairs. But how did it come about? Who found the body, and----"
