The Greene murder case

Chapter 30: Transcriber Notes

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The narrative follows a sequence of mysterious deaths within a wealthy family's mansion that confound police and the public; an urbane amateur detective applies forensic detail, psychological analysis, and careful reasoning alongside official investigators to unravel staged scenes, missing weapons and poisons, locked-room puzzles, and misleading traces. As successive tragedies escalate tension, methodical reconstruction of timelines, attention to small physical clues, and probing of motives expose an unexpected mechanism and the perpetrator's ingenuity, culminating in a logical but startling explanation of how the crimes were committed and why.

Transcriber Notes

This transcription follows the text of the first edition published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1928. However, the following alterations have been made to correct what are believed to be unambiguous errors in the text:

Two occurrences of missing quotation marks have been restored;
“betwen” has been corrected to “between” (Chapter IV);
“aways be” has been corrected to “always be” (Chapter V);
“Departmen” has been corrected to “Department” (Chapter VIII);
“te panels” has been corrected to “the panels” (Chapter XXVI).