Length8h 29m
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Excerpt: "Half way along the north side of the main street of Highmarket an ancient stone gateway, imposing enough to suggest that it was originally the entrance to some castellated mansion or manor house, gave access to a square yard, flanked about by equally ancient buildings. What those buildings had been used for in other days was not obvious to the casual and careless observer, but to the least observant their present use was obvious enough. Here were piles of timber from Norway; there were stacks of slate from Wales; here was marble from Aberdeen, and there cement from Portland: the old chambers of the grey buildings were filled to overflowing with all the things that go towards making a house-ironwork, zinc, lead, tiles, great coils of piping, stores of domestic appliances. And on a shining brass plate, set into the wall, just within the gateway, were deeply engraven the words: Mallalieu and Cotherstone, Builders and Contractors ..."
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length8 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 17, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2CHAPTER I: BLACKMAIL
3CHAPTER II: CRIME—AND SUCCESS
4CHAPTER III: MURDER
5CHAPTER IV: THE PINE WOOD
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6CHAPTER V: THE CORD
7CHAPTER VI: THE MAYOR
8CHAPTER VII: NIGHT WORK
9CHAPTER VIII: RETAINED FOR THE DEFENCE
10CHAPTER IX: ANTECEDENTS
11CHAPTER X: THE HOLE IN THE THATCH
12CHAPTER XI: CHRISTOPHER PETT
13CHAPTER XII: PARENTAL ANXIETY
14CHAPTER XIII: THE ANONYMOUS LETTER
15CHAPTER XIV: THE SHEET OF FIGURES
16CHAPTER XV: ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER
17CHAPTER XVI: THE LONELY MOOR
18CHAPTER XVII: THE MEDICAL OPINION
19CHAPTER XVIII: THE SCRAP BOOK
20CHAPTER XIX: A TALL MAN IN GREY CLOTHES
21CHAPTER XX: AT BAY
22CHAPTER XXI: THE INTERRUPTED FLIGHT
23CHAPTER XXII: THE HAND IN THE DARKNESS
24CHAPTER XXIII: COMFORTABLE CAPTIVITY
25CHAPTER XXIV: STRICT BUSINESS LINES
26CHAPTER XXV: NO FURTHER EVIDENCE
27CHAPTER XXVI: THE VIRTUES OF SUSPICION
28CHAPTER XXVII: MR. WRAYTHWAITE OF WRAYE
29CHAPTER XXVIII: PAGES FROM THE PAST
30CHAPTER XXIX: WITHOUT THOUGHT OF CONSEQUENCE
31CHAPTER XXX: COTHERSTONE
32CHAPTER XXXI: THE BARRISTER'S FEE
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