Published by COLLINS CRIME CLUB An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF First published in Great Britain by Wm Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1928 Published by The Detective Story Club Ltd 1929 Introduction © Nigel Moss 2016 Cover design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1929, 2016 A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library. This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. Source ISBN: 9780008137489 Ebook Edition © March 2016 ISBN: 9780008137496 Version: 2015-11-24 Contents
Chapter I: Wheels Within Wheels
Chapter II: What the Morning Brought
Chapter III: The Dressing-Gown
Chapter VI: Fisher Lays a Trap
Chapter VII: A Stranger in Red
Chapter VIII: Mr Carton Intrudes
Chapter X: Did Tollard Love His Wife?
Chapter XII: Carton Is Dissatisfied
Chapter XV: The Eyes of Mr Jorkins
Chapter XVII: Tollard Makes a Scene
Chapter XX: Speculations of a Kind
Chapter XXII: The Arrow That Flyeth by Night
Chapter XXIV: Elaine Is Stubborn
Chapter XXV: Carton V. Tollard
Chapter XXVI: Superintendent Fisher Wants the Ladder
Chapter XXVII: The Luck of the Ladder
Chapter XXVIII: The Brooding Silence
Chapter XXIX: A Joint Expedition
