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The Borough Treasurer

First published: 1921
Pages: 195

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Blackmail
16:49
Crime -- and Success
16:32
Murder
15:37
The Pine Wood
15:19
The Cord
16:33
The Mayor
13:10
Night Work
15:20
Retained for the Defense
17:28
Antecedents
13:15
The Hole in the Thatch
16:03
Christopher Pett
16:33
Parential Anxiety
14:43
The Anonymous Letter
14:48
The Sheet of Figures
15:55
One Thing Leads to Another
13:08
The Lonely Moor
16:03
The Medical Opinion
18:40
The Scrap Book
16:29
The Tall Man in Grey Clothes
15:59
At Bay
18:45
The Interrupted Flight
11:39
The Hand in the Darkness
15:40
Comfortable Captivity
15:46
Strict Business Lines
15:43
No Further Evidence
14:00
The Virtues of Suspicion
14:30
Mr. Wraythwaite of Wraye
14:00
Pages from the Past
12:48
Without Thought of Consequences
9:13
Cotherstone
28:54
The Barrister's Fee
6:41

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About this book

Two of the most respected men in a Yorkshire moorland town, a mayor and his business partner, have spent thirty years burying a shared secret from their youth. When a quiet newcomer who knows the truth turns up dead on the moor, suspicion settles close to home, and a visiting barrister sets out to discover what really happened. J. S. Fletcher builds his mystery on the theme of respectability bought with a lie, following blackmail, a second death, and a chain of small-town evasions toward an unhurried solution. First published in 1921, it is a solid example of the Yorkshire crime writing that made him a fixture of the golden-age detective boom. Read it here as a free PDF and EPUB edition.

About the author

J. S. Fletcher

Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1935) was an English journalist and one of the most prolific authors of his generation, credited with well over two hundred books. A Yorkshireman who began in poetry and regional history, he turned to detective fiction in his fifties and won a wide readership on both sides of the Atlantic.