The Charing Cross Mystery

A wealthy businessman is found dead at his country estate with no signs of forced entry or struggle. The investigation reveals a complex web of relationships and motives among the victim's family members and employees. As the detective digs deeper, he uncovers a trail of deceit and betrayal that leads him to suspect one of the victim's own relatives.

By J.S. Fletcher · First published 1927 · Genre: Mystery, Crime, Detective Fiction · 27 chapters

Contents

• The Last Train East
• Whose Portrait is this?
• The Potential Fortune
• The Diamond Necklace
• The Police Return
• Samples of Ink
• Black Velvet
• Fligwood's Rents
• The Medicine Bottle
• The Mysterious Visitor
• Lady Riversreade
• _alias_ Madame Listorelle
• Who was she?
• Is it Blackmail?
• Revelations
• Still More
• The Torn Labels
• The Telegram
• The London Road
• Converging Tracks
• The Order in Writing
• The Highly-Respectable Solicitor
• The Landlady of Little Smith Street
• The House in the Yard
• Dead!
• Waterloo
• The Assurance

More by J.S. Fletcher

• The Paradise Mystery (1921)
• The Ivory God (1920)
• The Lighthouse on Shivering Sand (1920)
• The Other Sense (1920)
• The Safety Pin (1924)
• The New Sun (1930)
• The Orange-Yellow Diamond (1903)
• Scarhaven Keep (1923)
• All works by J.S. Fletcher