The Crooked Cross

by

Charles J. Dutton

Contents

I[An Invitation to Dinner]
II[The Crooked Cross]
III[The Broken Bookcase]
IV[We Discuss the Crime]
V[The Inquest]
VI[I Have an Adventure]
VII[The Chief and I—Make a Call]
VIII[We Have a Visitor—and—I Take a Ride]
IX[In Which Bartley Arrives]
X[The Face at the Window]
XI[The Gardener Speaks]
XII[The Chinaman Reappears]
XIII[We Hear a Story—and—Discover It Is True]
XIV[Patton Telephones—“It's Murder”]
XV[Another Murder]
XVI[The Voice in the Dark]
XVII[The Case Is Ended]

To my wife

Laura

who gave me the idea which

underlies this plot

Chapter I.
An Invitation to Dinner