The case with nine solutions

Chapter 21: Transcriber’s Notes

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About This Book

The narrative presents a succession of puzzling cases investigated by a perceptive sleuth and his associates, beginning with a death that triggers inquiries into neighboring houses, wills, coded advertisements, and a sequence of murders and apparent accidents. Episodes unfold through detective visits, journals, legal documents, and notebook excerpts that assemble possible explanations; one chapter explicitly sets out nine competing theories. Clues such as a fly trapped in amber, a jacket, and a double figure recur as connecting details, and the resolution derives from synthesizing written evidence, testimonies, and forensic observation to reveal the single coherent solution behind the scattered incidents.

Transcriber’s Notes

This transcription follows the text of the first edition published by Victor Gollancz Ltd. in 1928. However, the following alterations have been made to correct what are believed to be unambiguous errors in the text:

four missing punctuation marks have been restored;
“inconspicious” has been changed to “inconspicuous” (Chapter V);
“mare’s next” has been changed to “mare’s nest” (Chapter V);
“at anyrate” has been changed to “at any rate” (Chapter V);
“hysocine” has been changed to “hyoscine” (Chapter X);
“a few minutes, hunting” has been changed to “a few minutes’ hunting” (Chapter X);
“out a random” has been changed to “out of a random” (Chapter XI);
“in in an accident” has been changed to “in an accident” (Chapter XIX).