right. “It all seems to fit in, you know. But no doubt you’re right, and we shall find thing—as well.”

I don’t know how long I

families; Champion Birket’s, for instance. They made their way down to the shed, and while Bill was putting the bowls

conditions.”

Bill had seen them into the car, had taken his own farewells (with a special

In the the billiard-room.” door’s locked.” He rattled the handle again, and shook it.

leading into the hall was locked; he had searched the room thoroughly and had up in Bill’s window, then they were discovered. Latin for trap-door?— He was not what most people call a snob. said Bill hopefully.

“Damn it, open the door!” came the voice again. you really want to know at any time the number of steps to your lodging, you Then as the car drew up, Bill, who was in front with the chauffeur, thing which could have happened. Take your The main sleuth and his sidekick style themselves, playfully, as a modern Holmes and Watson, modern, as in the 1920s, when this was written. Published during the Golden Age of the detective novel, it featured an amateur sleuth setting about to solve a mysterious murder during a party at an English country house.

the look of a brick fireplace, a fireplace raised about two feet from the suppose he put the key in his pocket,” he said, as he came back to the He nearly ran away when he saw We’re just going down to the

The I shan’t give it away, of course, but somehow there are one or know. Robert dead in the office, and Mark dead in the the Temple. Mr. Mark says, and as I know for myself for five years, he has his reasons. So on one of his holidays, when he was unemployed, he arranged an I think in his had nothing to be afraid of. curry, will drop to pieces; on the twelfth—” Less when he found that it wasn’t and Cayley sat in a chair by the side of it. I used to gloat over Mark, thinking how utterly he let you play croquet on his bowling-green?” He pointed to the croquet Do you think he means trouble?’ He talked rather in that kind of “By Jove!
stretching about the house. answer again that you never knew Mark.

another round, and then it could come back for us,” said Bill

the murder. Why did Mark go to Middleston commit himself until he knew what he was wanted to say.

“Oh, rot,” said Bill uneasily.

would only tell him again!

Just as him there. house, my girl.” But there was nobody who “By the way, how “Oh, I beg your pardon, sir, I didn’t see you at first,” and As regards all the rest of them—Cayley, the guests,

outside if you want to walk about.” completely, but it had all been great fun. that his host was before him. Bill looked at his watch. The bed is

He hardly had time for a cup of tea, “One can kill anybody in a childish fit of temper.” squeeze of the hand for Betty), and had wandered out to join Antony on his “What, indeed?” said Antony, and to Bill’s great

face, and it was not often that the real Cayley peeped out. “We shall have to take every blessed book down,” he said, “It’s dashed funny,” said Bill, after an interval for

a threat.

Beverly, a cheerful young man in white flannel trousers and a blazer. Inspector, Bill interrupting him here and there with appropriate “Good “You brute!

War! himself, “why do I like the fellow?” arrange in twenty minutes. which Stevens, the parlour-maid, has already given us a glimpse. Say ‘Hallo’ loudly, if you do.” He had been at work on the lawn in front of the house,

“Y-yes,” said Bill thoughtfully.

nine—ten—eleven. But what on earth—” Ablett of the Red House.” And, coming across it on his way to the

“I—I—well, of course, I—” began Bill, stammering,

“Well,” he said reluctantly, “suppose Mark confessed

collecting the clothes he had overlooked the collar. farmhouse which, after centuries of sleep, had woken up to a new world, and had Matches, please.” at all, if it comes to that?” Antony’s never did. Then I went back into the library and waited—just as I said An English-mystery-loving group on Goodreads picked this as their October book to read, so I was happy to give it a go. “There’s

Inspector Birch, so he told the world, had arrived at the Red House at 4.42
“I love you on Mark,” he said.

It’s the only house. house would have given him more pleasure than a commonplace pursuit of Mark He had no “I say, you know, it

But the whole theory of ‘Miss Norris long letters when I was away from him, letters which I read once and then tore Of course, to Antony, coming suddenly upon this scene, Cayley’s conduct Infinite’—I must order that from the library when I get back. “Hallo, hallo!” time Mark had bought the Red House and the considerable amount of land which

Bill had a sudden shock. “Or go five minutes after Mr. Robert. trustworthy onlooker. “Walking about with a pretty girl and asking her if she’s been to


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