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The case of the Black Twenty-Two

Chapter 27: Transcriber Notes
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The narrative follows solicitor Peter Daventry when an American collector's passion for royal relics entangles him in a pair of murders, one at an art gallery and another at a country estate. Daventry and the eccentric Mr Bathurst probe books, screened portraits, a mysterious catalogue number, and memoir fragments while Inspector Goodall pursues formal inquiries. The investigation unravels through careful examination of provenance, hidden panels, and subtle social clues, presenting a methodical puzzle of detection that interweaves antiquarian obsession, manners, and deductive reasoning.

Transcriber Notes

This transcription follows the text of the second printing of the US edition published by Grosset & Dunlap in February, 1929. However, the following alterations have been made to correct what are believed to be unambiguous errors in the text:

  • “Lawrence” has been corrected to “Laurence” (Chapter I);
  • “propertly” has been corrected to “property” (Chapter I);
  • an omitted em dash has been restored (Chapter V);
  • vis-a-vis” has been corrected to “vis-à-vis” (Chapter VIII);
  • “mènage” has been corrected to “ménage” (Chapter XVI);
  • two missing quotation marks have been restored (Chapters XIX & XX).