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The purple sickle murders

Chapter 21: Transcriber’s Note
By Freeman Wills Crofts
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A meticulous Scotland Yard detective responds when a distressed young woman insists that a friend's apparent suicide was murder. He assembles witness testimony, timetables, physical traces, and the movements of cars and passengers, pursuing leads across towns and interrogating suspects. The investigation relies on patient, methodical reconstruction of journeys and alibis, surveillance, and legal procedures to reveal how a deliberate theft-and-deception scheme escalated into violence. Ultimately procedural persistence unmasks the perpetrators and resolves the intricate puzzle.

Transcriber’s Note

This transcription follows the text of 1929 US edition published by Grosset & Dunlap. (The book was published in England under the title The Box Office Murders.) The following errors have been corrected from the original text:

  • “She seem” was changed to “She seems” (Chapter VI).
  • “electrial” was changed to “electrical” (Chapter VII).
  • “chauffering” was changed to “chauffeuring” (Chapter VIII).
  • “musn’t” was changed to “mustn’t” (Chapter XII).
  • “Orsmby” was changed to “Ormsby” (Chapter XIV).
  • “consumated” was changed to “consummated” (Chapter XVIII).