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The Herapath Property

First published: 1921
Pages: 233

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Jacob Herapath is Missing
14:19
Is it Murder?
14:01
Barthrope Takes Charge
14:16
The Pressman
13:25
The Glass and the Sandwich
15:34
The Taxi-Cab Driver
14:37
Is there a Will?
15:17
The Second Witness
14:39
Greek Against Greek
12:24
Mr. Benjamin Halfpenny
14:17
The Shadow
14:45
For Ten Percent
12:46
Adjourned
15:12
The Scottish Verdict
15:25
Young Brains
14:08
Nameless Fear
14:26
The Law
14:40
The Rosewood Box
14:47
Weaving the Net
16:03
The Diamond Ring
14:58
The Deserted Flat
14:11
Yea and Nay
14:43
The Accusation
14:47
Cold Steel
13:40
Professional Analysis
14:57
The Remand Prison
15:32
The Last Cheque
15:16
The Hotel Ravenna
16:35
The Note in the Prayer-Book
16:09
The White-Haired Lady
15:23
The Interrupted Dinner-Party
12:05
The Yorkshire Proverb
6:22
Burchill Fills the Stage
15:57
Davidge's Trump Card
13:59
The Second Warrant
12:26

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About this book

Jacob Herapath, a Member of Parliament who owns a model estate of modern flats in Kensington, is found shot through the right temple in his estate office, a revolver lying close by his hand. Death is the obvious reading until the timing collapses: the police surgeon puts death at about midnight, yet Mountain the coachman set his master down at Portman Square as the clocks struck one, and someone had eaten his sandwiches and poured his whisky. Selwood, a secretary of barely three weeks, is drawn into a case that widens into a will leaving everything to Herapath's niece and nothing to Barthorpe, the nephew who expected it. Fletcher covered murder trials as a journalist, and the inquest routine and the solicitors' manoeuvring ring true. He was among the most prolific crime writers of his day.

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.