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A country gentleman's tranquil life is disturbed by a small domestic alarm that presages escalating intrigue: petty mischief develops into theft and accusation, unsettling a tight-knit rural household. Local constables and Scotland Yard become involved as suspicions spread, family ties and rival motives complicate the inquiry, and a mixture of surveillance, testimony, and careful deduction gradually unravels the plot. The narrative moves from garden-side intimacies to procedural investigation, exposing conspiracies and hidden loyalties before disclosing the facts behind the wrongdoing.

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Title: The Postmaster's Daughter

Author: Louis Tracy

Release date: November 1, 2003 [eBook #10110]
Most recently updated: October 28, 2024

Language: English

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The Postmaster’s Daughter

by Louis Tracy

1916

Also by this author: Number Seventeen, The Wheel of Fortune, The Terms of Surrender, The Wings of the Morning, &c.


Contents

I. The Face at the Window
II. P. C. Robinson “Takes a Line”
III. The Gathering Clouds
IV. A Cabal
V. The Seeds of Mischief
VI. Scotland Yard Takes a Hand
VII. “Alarums and Excursions”
VIII. An Interrupted Symposium
IX. He Whom the Cap Fits—
X. The Case Against Grant
XI. P. C. Robinson Takes Another Line
XII. Wherein Winter Gets To Work
XIII. Concerning Theodore Siddle
XIV. On Both Sides of the River
XV. A Matter of Heredity
XVI. Furneaux Makes a Successful Bid
XVII. An Official Housebreaker
XVIII. The Truth at Last