An intriguing mystery by J. S. Fletcher, centering on why a former high-level police official was murdered, and on whether - and if so how - the murder was linked to two glamorous and high-profile sisters, one of whose photo was found in the dead man's pocket. As usual, Fletcher creates a number of different detectives -- a lawyer, his assistant, several policemen, a police spy, and even the dead man's granddaughter -- following various lines of inquiry. These lines converge rapidly in the last few chapters, when the author lets the reader weave them together into a coherent whole: the solution to the mystery.
Read by Kirsten Wever
Running Time:09:02:05 in 8 Audio CDs
1 01 - The Last Train East - 19:35
2 02 - Whose Portrait is This - 20:49
3 03 - The Potential Fortune - 17:37
4 04 - The Diamond Necklace - 20:01
5 05 - The Police Return - 18:35
6 06 - Samples of Ink - 21:41
7 07 - Black Velvet - 21:42
8 08 - Fligwood's Rents - 17:44
9 09 - The Medicine Bottle - 18:46
10 10 - The Mysterious Visitor - 22:54
11 11 - Lady Riversdale - 22:05
12 12 - Alias "Madame Listorelle" - 13:39
13 13 - Who Was She? - 18:57
14 14 - Is it Blackmail? - 21:19
15 15 - Revelations - 21:40
16 16 - Still More - 22:54
17 17 - The Torn Labels - 19:39
18 18 - The Telegram - 24:12
19 19 - The London Road - 17:16
20 20 - Converging Tracks - 19:49
21 21 - The Order in Writing - 20:16
22 22 - The Highly Respectable Solicitor - 18:42
23 23 - The Landlady of Little Smith Street - 24:41
24 24 - The House in the Yard - 18:45
25 25 - Dead! - 15:50
26 26 - Waterloo - 24:28
27 27 - The Assurance - 18:29