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The Borough Treasurer

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The Borough Treasurer (1921)
by Joseph Smith Fletcher
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THE BOROUGH
TREASURER

THE BOROUGH
TREASURER

BY
J. S. FLETCHER

AUTHOR OF

THE MIDDLE TEMPLE MURDER,
THE PARADISE MYSTERY, Etc.

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERSNEW YORK

Made in the United States of America

COPYRIGHT, 1921, BYALFRED A. KNOPF, Inc.
Published July, 1921Second Printing, November, 1921

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTENTS

I Blackmail, 1
II Crime—and Success, 11
III Murder, 21
IV The Pine Wood, 31
V The Cord, 41
VI The Mayor, 52
VII Night Work, 61
VIII Retained for the Defence, 71
IX Antecedents, 82
X The Hole in the Thatch, 91
XI Christopher Pett, 101
XII Parental Anxiety, 111
XIII The Anonymous Letter, 121
XIV The Sheet of Figures, 131
XV One Thing Leads to Another, 141
XVI The Lonely Moor, 149
XVII The Medical Opinion, 159
XVIII The Scrap Book, 171
IX A Tall Man in Grey Clothes, 181
XX At Bay, 191
XXI The Interrupted Flight, 203
XXII The Hand in the Darkness, 211
XXIII Comfortable Captivity, 221
XXIV Strict Business Lines, 231
XXV No Further Evidence, 242
XXVI The Virtues of Suspicion, 251
XXVII Mr. Wraythwaite of Wraye, 260
XXVIII Pages from the Past, 269
XIX Without Thought of Consequences, 277
XXX Cotherstone, 283
XXXI The Barrister's Fee, 302

THE BOROUGH
TREASURER

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