The Case of the Black Twenty-Two

by

Brian Flynn

Grosset & Dunlap

New York

First published in the United States, January, 1929

Second printing, February, 1929

Copyright, 1929, by Macrae Smith Company

Contents

I[Mr. Daventry Receives a Commission]
II[Schedule Numbers 37, 38 and 39]
III[The Hanover Galleries Murder]
IV[Peter Daventry Is Mindful of Mr. Bathurst]
V[The Assynton Lodge Murder]
VI[Marjorie Lennox Doesn’t Mince Matters]
VII[Butterworth Is Apprehensive of the Future]
VIII[The 6:55 Carries a Trio of Distinction]
IX[Mr. Bathurst Opens His Bedroom Door]
X[The Incident of the Boot-Boy’s Bicycle]
XI[With a Given Center, Mr. Bathurst Describes a Circle]
XII[The Second Screen of Mary Stuart]
XIII[Colonel Leach-Fletcher Is at Home to Visitors]
XIV[Mr. Bathurst Takes a Book from the Bookcase]
XV[Mr. Daventry Gets His Feet Wet]
XVI[Mr. Bathurst Again Samples the Bookcase]
XVII[The Memoirs of Réné de St. Maure]
XVIII[The Room at Blanchard’s Hotel]
XIX[Inspector Goodall Is Entertained]
XX[Mr. Bathurst Brushes Up His History]
XXI[Mr. Ferguson of New York]
XXII[Mr. Bathurst Baits the Hook]
XXIII[When the Cat’s Away]
XXIV[The Secret of the Screens]
XXV[The Riddle of the Black Twenty-Two]