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The Paradise Mystery

First published: 1920
Pages: 197

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Chapter I: Only the Guardian
18:33
Chapter II: Making an Enemy
22:16
Chapter III: St. Wrytha's Stair
22:47
Chapter IV: The Room at the Mitre
18:55
Chapter V: The Scrap of Paper
20:19
Chapter VI: By Misadventure
17:25
Chapter VII: The Double Trail
22:24
Chapter VIII: The Best Man
18:05
Chapter IX: The House of His Friend
19:33
Chapter X: Diplomacy
21:38
Chapter XI: The Back Room
19:41
Chapter XII: Murder of the Mason's Labourer
18:34
Chapter XIII: Bryce Is Asked a Question
19:04
Chapter XIV: From the Past
19:42
Chapter XV: The Double Offer
19:07
Chapter XVI: Beforehand
15:07
Chapter XVII: To Be Shadowed
20:39
Chapter XVIII: Surprise
14:51
Chapter XIX: The Subtlety of the Devil
21:12
Chapter XX: Jettison Takes a Hand
21:48
Chapter XXI: Saxonsteade Arms
17:27
Chapter XXII: Other People's Notions
21:37
Chapter XXIII: The Unexpected
17:50
Chapter XXIV: Finesse
18:19
Chapter XXV: The Old Well House
16:43
Chapter XXVI: The Other Man
16:37
Chapter XXVII: The Guarded Secret
19:01

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In the quiet cathedral town of Wrychester, a stranger falls to his death from a gallery high in the old church, and what looks at first like an accident opens into a mystery reaching back into hidden identities and a decades-old crime. Dr. Mark Ransford, guardian of two young wards, finds himself entangled as suspicion and gossip circle the close, while a determined young man works to clear a name and expose the truth. J. S. Fletcher makes fine use of the shadowed cloisters and cathedral politics, setting careful detection against the hush of an English precinct. First published in 1920, it is one of the tightly plotted mysteries that carried his reputation across Britain and the United States. 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.