CONTENTS

IN THE MAYOR'S PARLOUR CHAPTER I THE MAYOR'S PARLOUR

CHAPTER II THE CAMBRIC HANDKERCHIEF

CHAPTER III THE TANNERY HOUSE

CHAPTER IV BULL'S SNUG

CHAPTER V SLEEPING FIRES

CHAPTER VI THE ANCIENT OFFICE OF CORONER

CHAPTER VII THE VOLUNTARY WITNESS

CHAPTER VIII MRS. SAUMAREZ

CHAPTER IX THE RIGHT TO INTERVENE

CHAPTER X THE CAT IN THE BAG

CHAPTER XI THE NINETEEN MINUTES' INTERVAL

CHAPTER XII CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE

CHAPTER XIII A WOMAN INTERVENES

CHAPTER XIV WHOSE VOICES?

CHAPTER XV THE SPECIAL EDITION

CHAPTER XVI THE CASTLE WALL

CHAPTER XVII IMPREGNABLE

CHAPTER XVIII LOOSE STRANDS

CHAPTER XIX BLACK SECRETS AND RED TAPE

CHAPTER XX THE FELL HAND

CHAPTER XXI CORRUPTION

CHAPTER XXII THE PARLOUR-MAID

CHAPTER XXIII THE CONNECTING WALL

CHAPTER XXIV BEHIND THE PANEL

CHAPTER XXV THE EMPTY ROOM

NEW FICTION

N    THE    MAYOR'S
I —— PARLOUR ——

By  J.  S.  FLETCHER

JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LIMITED

LONDON MCMXXII

SECOND EDITION

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