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The Roman hat mystery

Chapter 32: Transcriber’s Notes
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About This Book

A man in a theatre audience is found dead during a performance, and his inexplicable death triggers a tightly plotted investigation. An experienced police inspector and his son, a mystery-writer gifted in deduction, pursue methodical inquiry into seating, costume and hat evidence, and forensic detail. The narrative unfolds through interviews, legal conversations, and social encounters that expose motives among theatre personnel and patrons. Clues are assembled and weighed in a formal analytical climax that explains the mechanics of the crime and identifies the perpetrator.

Transcriber’s Notes

In the HTML version of this text, original page numbers are enclosed in a box and presented in the right margin.

Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end of the book.

Misspelled words have been corrected (see below). Archaic, inconsistent and alternative spellings have been left unchanged. Hyphenation has not been standardised.

Ellipsis placement has been modified in order to facilitate text reflow. In most cases ellipses between sentences have been merged with the closing punctuation of the preceding sentence. Ellipses between words within a sentence have had spaces added before and after.

“Edit Distance” in Corrections table below refers to the Levenshtein Distance.

Corrections:

Page Source Correction Edit distance
v 57 56 1
vi 270 271 1
xv hypochrondiac hypochondriac 2
152 of couse of course 1
174 Professsor Professor 1
175 æsophagus œsophagus 1
226 distate distaste 1