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Saved by a Cipher—A Detectives Story

chapter i.

I have worked up many hard cases and have cornered many notorious criminals, but never before or since have I been engaged in a case so complicated, or one which was so hard to clear up as that Stuart-Firstone murder case.

You know that the Stuarts were very wealthy, and the old man had only two sons, Cecil and Gilbert; outlandish names they had, to be sure, but they were very proud of them, at least the younger one. As I said, he had only… Read More