The Story Behind the Verdict

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The Story Behind the Verdict (1915)
by Frank Danby
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First serialized as individual short stories in Harper's Weekly, 1914.

The series of mysterious crimes hidden behind bungling verdicts by coroner's juries makes up the contents of Frank Danby's new volume which, while interesting as a clever example of the Sherlock Holmes type of story, is a curious and radical departure from the customary methods of the author of Pigs in Clover. Keightley Wilbur, a young novelist and playwright, master of the epigram and paradox and possessed of an unwholesome love for ferreting out ugly deeds. [...] The circumstances under which Keightley subsequently tells real facts to a friend, forms another sub-current of narrative which recurs intermittently through the succeeding stories and is quite outside of the stories themselves.—From a review in the Bookman, November 1915

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THE STORY BEHIND
THE VERDICT

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

  • FULL SWING
  • HEART OF A CHILD
  • CONCERT PITCH
  • LET THE ROOF FALL IN
  • PIGS IN CLOVER
  • BACCARAT
  • DR. PHILLIPS, Etc.

THE STORY
BEHIND THE VERDICT

BY
FRANK DANBY

Author of "Pigs in Clover," "Heart of a
Child," etc.

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1915

Copyright, 1914
By HARPER'S WEEKLY

COPYRIGHT, 1915
By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY

CONTENTS

  1. chapterpage
  2. Introduction vii
  3. I The Case of Pierre Lamotte 1
  4. II The Arbuthnot Case 32
  5. III The Case of Mornington Ransby 74
  6. IV Medical Etiquette 102
  7. V The Seddon-Battyes 133
  8. VI The Affair of Harry Maingaye 175
  9. VII The Inquest on Armand le Mesurier 205
  10. VIII The End of the Story 245
  11. IX La Valière and Her Pearls 284
  12. Epilogue 317

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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