The viaduct murder

Chapter 28: Transcriber’s Notes

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About This Book

A puzzling death linked to a railway viaduct near a country golf club draws local men into a methodical inquiry that uses timetables, maps, and testimonies to reconstruct events. The narrative moves from clubrooms and parish life to inquests, searches, and a fog-shrouded pursuit, as investigators test hypotheses, follow misleading clues, and assemble evidence through practical experiments. Episodes pivot on clever little puzzles—a revealing photograph, a communicative book—and on temperate philosophical asides, while dry humor and social detail frame the procedural unraveling leading to a final demonstration of how the crime was committed.

Transcriber’s Notes

This transcription follows the text of the edition published by Simon and Schuster, Inc. in 1926. The following alterations have been made to correct what are believed to be unambiguous errors in the text:

“circumstancs” has been changed to “circumstance” (Chapter VII);
“Reeve’s” has been changed to “Reeves’ ” (Chapter XII);
“they’d thing it was” has been changed to “they’d think it was” (Chapter XVI);
“Marrayyatt’s” has been changed to “Marrayatt’s” (Chapter XXI);
“Oatville” has been changed to “Oatvile” (Chapter XXIII);