St. Peter's Finger

St. Peter’s Finger

Gladys Mitchell

Bradley 09

1938

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Contents

chapter i: cyclist

chapter 2: inmates

chapter 3: relatives

chapter 4: athlete

chapter 5: orphans

chapter 6: nuns

chapter 7: headmistress

chapter 8: retrospect

chapter 9: documents

chapter 10: questions

chapter 11: suspects

chapter 12: guests

chapter 13: picador

chapter 14: hobbies

chapter 15: attack

chapter 16: chessboard

chapter 17: disappearance

chapter 18: search

chapter 19: culprit

chapter 20: george

chapter 21: girls

chapter 22: reconnaissance

chapter 23: preparation

chapter 24: conflagration

chapter 25: conclusion

St. Martin’s Press New York

st. peter’s finger. Copyright © 1938 by Gladys Mitchell. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-St. Peter’s finger.

I. Title.

PR6025.I832S7 1987 823'.912 86-24782

isbn 0-312-00192-4

First published in Great Britain by Tom Stacey Reprints Ltd.

First U.S. Edition

10 987654321

to my brother

REGINALD JAMES MITCHELL

in memory of our childhood

“And how beguile you? Death has no repose

Warmer and deeper than that Orient sand

Which hides the beauty and bright faith of those

Who made the Golden Journey to Samarkhand.’

james elroy flecker

“And can a man his own quietus make

with a bare bodkin?

With daggers, bodkins, bullets, man can make

a bruise or break of exit for his life;

but is that a quietus, O tell me, is it quietus?

“Surely not so! for how could murder, even self-murder

Ever a quietus make?”