A Silent Witness

BY R. AUSTIN FREEMAN
Author of The Red Thumb Mark,
The Eye of Osiris, etc.

New York
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
1929

[COPYRIGHT]

Published in U.S.A., 1929
By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.

CONTENTS

I. The Beginning of the Mystery

II. The Finding of the Reliquary

III. “Who is Sylvia?”

IV. Septimus Maddock, Deceased

V. The Lethal Chamber

VI. A Council of War

VII. An Unseen Enemy

VIII. “It’s an Ill Wind—”

IX. Thorndyke Takes up the Scent

X. The Unheeded Warning

XI. A Chapter of Accidents

XII. Miss Vyne

XIII. A Mysterious Stranger

XIV. A Lonely Woman

XV. Exit Dr. Jardine

XVI. Enter Father Humperdinck

XVII. The Palimpsest

XVIII. A Visitor from the States

XIX. Tenebrae

XX. The Hue and Cry

XXI. The Final Problem

XXII. Thorndyke Reviews the Case