The Mystery of the Skeleton Key

The Mystery of the Skeleton Key
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The fourth in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves a tragic accident during a shooting party. As the story switches between Paris and Hampshire, the possibility of it not being an accident seems to grow more likely.“The Detective Story Club”, launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearing house for the best and most ingenious crime stories of the age, chosen by a select committee of experts. Now, almost 90 years later, these books are the classics of the Golden Age, republished at last with the same popular cover designs that appealed to their original readers.The Mystery of the Skeleton Key, first published in 1919, has the distinction of being the first detective novel commissioned and published by Collins, though it was Bernard Capes’ only book in the genre, as he died shortly before it was published. This is how the Detective Club announced their edition ten years later:“Mr Arnold Bennett, in a recent article, criticised the ad hoc characterisation and human interest in the detective novels of to-day. “The Mystery of the Skeleton Key” contains, in addition to a clever crime problem and plenty of thrills, a sensible love story, humour, excellent characterisation and strong human interest. The scenes are laid in Paris and Hampshire. The story deals with a crime committed in the grounds of a country house and the subsequent efforts of a clever young detective the track down the perpetrator. The Selection Committee of “The Detective Story Club” have no hesitation in recommending this splendid thriller as one which will satisfy the most exacting reader of detective fiction.”This new edition comes with a brand new introduction by Capes expert and anthologist, Hugh Lamb.

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Гилберт Кит Честертон. The Mystery of the Skeleton Key

INTRODUCTION

EPIGRAPH

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I. MY FIRST MEETING WITH THE BARON

CHAPTER II. MY SECOND MEETING WITH THE BARON

CHAPTER III. WILDSHOTT

CHAPTER IV. I AM INTERESTED IN THE BARON

CHAPTER V. THE BARON CONTINUES TO INTEREST ME

CHAPTER VI ‘THAT THUNDERS IN THE INDEX’

CHAPTER VII. THE BARON VISITS THE SCENE OF THE CRIME

CHAPTER VIII. AN ENTR’ACTE

CHAPTER IX. THE INQUEST

CHAPTER X. AFTERWARDS

CHAPTER XI. THE BARON DRIVES

CHAPTER XII. THE BARON WALKS

CHAPTER XIII. ACCUMULATING EVIDENCE

CHAPTER XIV. THE EXPLOSION

CHAPTER XV. THE FACE ON THE WALL

CHAPTER XVI. THE BARON FINDS A CHAMPION

CHAPTER XVII. AND AUDREY

CHAPTER XVIII. THE BARON RETURNS

CHAPTER XIX. THE DARK HORSE

CHAPTER XX. THE BARON LAYS HIS CARDS ON THE TABLE

CHAPTER XXI. A LAST WORD

THE DETECTIVE STORY CLUB

About the Publisher

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Title Page

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Chapter XVIII: THE BARON RETURNS

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