The poisoned chocolates case

Chapter 21: Transcriber’s Note

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An amateur detective organizes his Crimes Circle to investigate the death of Mrs. Bendix, who dies after receiving poisoned chocolates; with Scotland Yard having stalled its inquiry, members pool expertise, reconstruct events, scrutinize alibis and motives, and propose competing solutions. The story unfolds as a locked-room style puzzle emphasizing logical deduction, group debate, and careful forensics, proceeding through clue-driven chapters and a dramatic denouement that reveals how the poisoning occurred and why, while intentionally inviting readers to weigh alternative explanations.

Transcriber’s Note

This transcription follows the text of The British Library edition, published in 2016. However, the following errors have been corrected from the text:

A mismatched quotation mark was repaired (Chapter VI).
“unwieldly” was changed to “unwieldy” (Chapter VII).
“appears to thinks” was changed to “appears to think” (Chapter VIII).
“Aways” was changed to “Always” (Chapter IX).
“Masons’ ” was changed to “Mason’s” (Chapter XIII).
“assumptions seems” was changed to “assumptions seem” (Chapter XVI).

All other seeming errors and unusual phrasings have been left unchanged.