Detective Story Magazine/The Secret of the Quarry

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The Secret of the Quarry (1921)
by J. S. Fletcher

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As serialized in Detective Story Magazine, 19 Feb 1921 to 12 Mar 1921. Published in book form as The Talleyrand Maxim (US: 1920)

Linford Pratt accepts the Talleyrand maxim, “with time and patience the mulberry leaf is turned into satin.” He decides that with time and patience, and incidentally with much cleverness and without righteous scruples, his own life, which is an insignificant mulberry leaf, can be transformed into satin. He begins by snatching a will from a dead man’s pocket, and then a very ingenious and well told mystery story follows. —The Booklist, (Chicago) March 1920.

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The Secret of

the Quarry

^by J. S. Fletcher

Author of “The Middle Temple Murder,” “The Cortland Mystery,”
“The Lost Mr. Linthwaite,” etc.

Chapters (not listed in original)

Part I 19 Feb 1921
Part II 26 Feb 1921
Part III 05 Mar 1921
Part IV 12 Mar 1921

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.

The longest-living author of this work died in 1935, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 88 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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