The Charing Cross Mystery
by J. S. Fletcher
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Excerpt: "The whole class came to the meeting. There hadn't been such an important meeting at West Point for many a day. The yearling class had been outrageously insulted. The mightiest traditions of the academy had been violated, "trampled beneath the dust," and that by two or three vile and uncivilized "beasts"-"plebes"-new cadets of scarcely a week's experience. And the third class, the yearlings, by inherent right the guardians of West Point's honor, and the hazers of the plebe, had show more vowed that those plebes must be punished as never had plebes been punished before." show lessTags
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Very involved plot with identical twins as suspects in a poisoning case. The investigation is carried on jointly by a police insepctor and a witness to the poisoning who happens to be a lawyer. The facts and clues are well thought out and I enjoyed the writing style. A definite recommendation to all British classic crime readers.
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- Canonical title
- The Charing Cross Mystery
- Original publication date
- 1922
- First words
- Hetherwick had dined that evening with friends who lived in Cadogan Gardens, and had stayed so late in conversation with his host that midnight had come before he left and set out for his bachelor chambers in the Temple; it w... (show all)as, indeed, by the fraction of a second that he caught the last east-bound train at Sloane Square.
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- Languages
- English, Italian
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- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 10
- ASINs
- 11
