Death of a Delft Blue
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Contents
preamble
chapter one: a conference ends
chapter two: a dinner in amsterdam
chapter three: scottish air on a barrel-organ
chapter four: maastricht and valkenburg
chapter five: a dinner in north norfolk
chapter six: aftermath of a dinner party
chapter seven: disappearance of an heir
chapter eight: concern about the dispossessed
chapter nine: speculation about a troglodyte
chapter ten: maastricht and valkenburg revisited
chapter eleven: laura the sleuth
chapter twelve: towards kinderscout
chapter thirteen: eldon hole
chapter fourteen: no stone unturned
chapter fifteen: gavin reports
chapter sixteen: a delft blue at bay
chapter seventeen: dinner with bernardo
chapter eighteen: the she-bear defends her grand-cub
chapter nineteen: analysis of three reactions
chapter twenty: north norfolk again
chapter twenty-one: pursuit of a delft blue
chapter twenty-two: death of a delft blue
DEATH OF A DELFT BLUE
The motive for his murder is unusual, but for the murderer it is overriding and would have been perfectly comprehensible to James Elroy Flecker. It was also comprehensible to Dame Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley: and though her secretary, Laura Gavin, reached the same solution, she did so not by logic, but by chance and a tune played on a barrel-organ.
DEAD MAN’S MORRIS
COME AWAY DEATH
ST PETER’S FINGER
PRINTER’S ERROR
BRAZEN TONGUES
HANGMAN’S CURFEW
WHEN LAST I DIED
LAURELS ARE POISON
THE WORSTED VIPER
SUNSET OVER SOHO
MY FATHER SLEEPS
THE RISING OF THE MOON
HERE COMES A CHOPPER
DEATH AND THE MAIDEN
THE DANCING DRUIDS
TOM BROWN’S BODY
GROANING SPINNEY
THE DEVIL’S ELBOW
