As a Thief in the Night

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R. Austin Freeman. As a Thief in the Night

As a Thief in the Night

Table of Contents

I. — THE INVALID

II. — BARBARA MONKHOUSE COMES HOME

III. — A SHOCK FOR THE MOURNERS

IV. — "HOW, WHEN AND WHERE—"

V. — MADELINE'S ORDEAL

VI. — THE VERDICT

VII. — THE SEARCH WARRANT

VIII. — THORNDYKE SPEAKS BLUNTLY

IX. — SUPERINTENDENT MILLER IS PUZZLED

X. — A GREEK GIFT

XI. — THE RIVALS

XII. — THORNDYKE CHALLENGES THE EVIDENCE

XIII. — RUPERT MAKES SOME DISCOVERIES

XIV. — RUPERT CONFIDES IN THORNDYKE

XV. — A PURSUIT AND A DISCOVERY

XVI. — BARBARA'S MESSAGE

XVII. — THORNDYKE RETRACES THE TRAIL

XVIII. — THE FINAL PROOF

THE END

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R. Austin Freeman

Published by Good Press, 2021

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I complied with this request at once; and having by this time reached the end of the Terrace, I shook hands with him and walked slowly to my chambers in Fig Tree Court. I had not got much out of Thorndyke excepting a very useful suggestion and some valuable help; indeed, as I turned over his extremely cautious utterances and speculated on what he meant by "complications." I found myself rather more uncomfortably puzzled than I had been before I met him.

"That is perfectly definite," said the coroner. "But you said that you ascertained the mode of administration in part. Do you mean that you inferred the existence of some other vehicle?"

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