Murder in the Bookshop - Carolyn Wells

THE DETECTIVE STORY CLUB is a clearing house for the best detective and mystery stories chosen for you by a select committee of experts. Only the most ingenious crime stories will be published under the THE DETECTIVE STORY CLUB imprint. A special distinguishing stamp appears on the wrapper and title page of every THE DETECTIVE STORY CLUB bookthe Man with the Gun. Always look for the Man with the Gun when buying a Crime book.

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This Detective Club edition published 2018

First published in the USA by Grosset & Dunlap 1936

The Shakespeare Title-Page Mystery published in The Dolphin by the Limited Editions Club 1940

Introduction © Curtis Evans 2018

Cover design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2018

Carolyn Wells asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the authors imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Source ISBN: 9780008283025

Ebook Edition © November 2018 ISBN: 9780008283032

Version: 2018-08-24

Dedication

TO MY LONG-TIME FRIENDS

MR AND MRS ALFRED F. GOLDSMITH

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

IN ALL GOOD-WILL

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Introduction

I. THE CRIME IN THE BOOKSHOP

II. RAMSAYS WORD IS DOUBTED

III. GUY DEMANDS HIS RIGHTS

IV. FLEMING STONE TAKES THE CASE

V. INQUIRIES

VI. STONE AND HIS SUSPECTS

VII. A LIST OF SUSPECTS

VIII. THE PASTED LETTER AND ANOTHER

IX. THE OTHER

X. THE DEATH OF THE SCION

XI. ALLI RESPONDS TO THE LETTER

XII. WHERE DID ALLI GO?

XIII. RAMSAY GETS BUSY

XIV. BENSON BUSY TOO

XV. STONE STARTS ON HIS QUEST

XVI. THE AWFUL BIG MAN

XVII. HELD BY THE ENEMY

XVIII. AFTER ALL

THE SHAKESPEARE TITLE-PAGE MYSTERY

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