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The Charing Cross Mystery

First published: 1923
Pages: 198

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The Last Train East
19:35
Whose Portrait is This
20:49
The Potential Fortune
17:37
The Diamond Necklace
20:01
The Police Return
18:35
Samples of Ink
21:41
Black Velvet
21:42
Fligwood's Rents
17:44
The Medicine Bottle
18:46
The Mysterious Visitor
22:54
Lady Riversdale
22:05
Alias "Madame Listorelle"
13:39
Who Was She?
18:57
Is it Blackmail?
21:19
Revelations
21:40
Still More
22:54
The Torn Labels
19:39
The Telegram
24:12
The London Road
17:16
Converging Tracks
19:49
The Order in Writing
20:16
The Highly Respectable Solicitor
18:42
The Landlady of Little Smith Street
24:41
The House in the Yard
18:45
Dead!
15:50
Waterloo
24:28
The Assurance
18:29

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About this book

Riding home on a late-night Underground train, a young barrister watches an elderly stranger collapse and die, apparently of a heart attack. Another passenger who had been talking with the dead man slips away before the carriage reaches the platform. When a post-mortem reveals a rare poison, the barrister understands he has witnessed a murder and pushes into an investigation that runs from London courtrooms to old secrets and a fortune worth killing for. J. S. Fletcher paces the chase briskly, favoring puzzle and pursuit over gore, in the mode that made his detective novels bestsellers in the 1920s. First published in 1923, it remains one of his most readable thrillers. 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.