The Case with Nine Solutions

A doctor answering an urgent call on a fog-bound night loses his way and stumbles into a house where a man lies dying of gunshot wounds. That single wrong turn opens onto a chain of deaths that could each be read as murder, suicide, accident, or natural cause, giving nine possible combinations, and Sir Clinton Driffield must test every one until only the truth survives. Connington, a chemist by profession, builds the case with the rigor of a laboratory experiment, laying the permutations out plainly for the reader to weigh. First published in 1928, it is often singled out as his cleverest exercise in pure detection. This free PDF and EPUB edition restores a sharp, methodical golden-age mystery.