OTHER BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR:
The House of the Whispering Pines Miss Hurd. An Enigma Leavenworth Case That Affair Next Door Strange Disappearance Lost Man’s Lane Sword of Damocles Agatha Webb Hand and Ring One of My Sons The Mill Mystery Defence of the Bride, Behind Closed Doors and Other Poems Cynthia Wakeham’s Money Risifi’s Daughter. A Drama Marked “Personal” The Golden Slipper To the Minute
CONTENTS
A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE
CHAPTER I. A NOVEL CASE
CHAPTER II. A FEW POINTS
CHAPTER III. THE CONTENTS OF A BUREAU DRAWER
CHAPTER IV. THOMPSON’S STORY
CHAPTER V. A NEW YORK BELLE
CHAPTER VI. A BIT OF CALICO
CHAPTER VII. THE HOUSE AT THE GRANBY CROSS ROADS
CHAPTER VIII. A WORD OVERHEARD
CHAPTER IX. A FEW GOLDEN HAIRS
CHAPTER X. THE SECRET OF MR. BLAKE’S STUDIO
CHAPTER XI. LUTTRA
CHAPTER XII. A WOMAN’S LOVE
CHAPTER XIII. A MAN’S HEART
CHAPTER XIV. MRS. DANIELS
CHAPTER XV. A CONFAB
CHAPTER XVI. THE MARK OF THE RED CROSS
CHAPTER XVII. THE CAPTURE
CHAPTER XVIII. LOVE AND DUTY
CHAPTER XIX. EXPLANATIONS
CHAPTER XX. THE BOND THAT UNITES
“Talking of sudden disappearances the one you mention of Hannah in that Leavenworth case of ours, is not the only remarkable one which has come under my direct notice. Indeed, I know of another that in some respects, at least, surpasses that in points of interest, and if you will promise not to inquire into the real names of the parties concerned, as the affair is a secret, I will relate you my experience regarding it.”
The speaker was Q, the rising young detective, universally acknowledged by us of the force as the most astute man