Contents

  1. [An Unpleasant Dinner Party]
  2. [In Room 18]
  3. [Dr. Letheny Does Not Return]
  4. [A Yellow Slicker and Other Problems]
  5. [A Lapis Cuff Link]
  6. [I Make a Discovery—and Regret It]
  7. [The Disappearing Key and Part of an Inquest]
  8. [A Gold Sequin]
  9. [Under the Barberry Bush]
  10. [A Midnight Visitor]
  11. [By the Light of a Match]
  12. [Room 18 Again]
  13. [The Radium Appears]
  14. [A Matter of Evidence]
  15. [Corole Is Moved to Candour]
  16. [The Red Light Above the Door]
  17. [O’Leary Tells a Story]
  18. [O’Leary Revises His Story]

To

William and Margaret Good

NOTE

All of the characters in this book, as well as St. Ann’s Hospital, are entirely fictitious.