Scarhaven Keep (1922)
by Joseph Smith Fletcher
4582841Scarhaven Keep1922Joseph Smith Fletcher

SCARHAVEN
KEEP

THE MYSTERY STORIES OF

J. S. FLETCHER

"We always feel as though we were really spreading happiness when we can announce a genuinely satisfactory mystery story, such as J. S. Fletcher's new one."

—N. P. D. in the New York Globe.



THE MIDDLE TEMPLE MURDER [1918]

"Unquestionably, the detective story of the season and, therefore, one which no lover of detective fiction should miss."—The Broadside.

THE TALLEYRAND MAXIM [1920]

"A crackerjack mystery tale; the story of Linford Pratt, who earnestly desired to get on in life, by hook or by crook-with no objection whatever to crookedness, so long as it could be per formed in safety and secrecy."—Knickerbocker Press.

THE PARADISE MYSTERY [1920]

"As a weaver of detective tales Mr. Fletcher is entitled to a seat among the elect. His numerous followers will find his latest book fully as absorbing as anything from his pen that has previously appeared."—New York Times.

DEAD MEN'S MONEY [1920]

"The story is one that holds the reader with more than the mere interest of sensational events; Mr. Fletcher writes in a notable style."—Newark Evening News.

THE ORANGE-YELLOW DIAMOND [1921]

" . . .A rattling good yarn. . . . An uncommonly well written tale."—New York Times.

THE CHESTERMARKE INSTINCT [1921]

"Mr. Fletcher is a master of plot. . . . To tell a story as well as this is a literary achievement."—Boston Transcript.

THE BOROUGH TREASURER [1921]

"As mystifyng a tale as even Mr. Fletcher himself has written."—New York Times.

THE HERAPATH PROPERTY [1921]

Numerous complications lead from the murder of Jacob Herapath and the search for his will.

SCARHAVEN KEEP [1922]

The mystery of the disappearance of Bassett Oliver, famous actor.

RAVENSDENE COURT [1922]

Two men are struck down by an unseen hand, at the same time in widely separated places-who killed them?

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ALFRED A. KNOPF, New York.



SCARHAVEN
KEEP



BY

J. S. FLETCHER



NEW YORK

ALFRED ·A · KNOPF

MCMXXII



COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
ALFRED A. KNOPF, Inc.

Second Printing, February, 1922
Third Printing, June, 1922

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTENTS

chapter
I Wanted at Rehearsal 9
II Grey Rock and Grey Sea 18
III The Man Who Knew Something 29
IV The Estate Agent 39
V The Greyle History 49
VI The Leading Lady 59
VII Left on Guard 68
VIII Right of Way 80
IX Hobkin's Hole 90
X The Invalid Curate 100
XI Beneath the Brambles 110
XII Good Men and True 121
XIII Mr. Dennie 131
XIV By Private Treaty 140
XV The Cablegram from New York 151
XVI In Touch with the Missing 161
XVII The Old Playbill 172
XVIII The Lie on the Tombstone 182
XIX The Steam Yacht 191
XX The Courteous Captain 202
XXI Marooned 214
XXII The Old Hand 222
XXIII The Yacht Comes Back 232
XXIV The Torpedo-Boat Destroyer 241
XXV The Squire 249
XXVI The Reaver's Glen 258
XXVII The Peel Tower 267
XXVIII The Footprints 277
XXIX Scarvell's Cur 285
XXX The Greengrocer's Cart 294
XXXI Ambassadress Extraordinary 305

SCARHAVEN
KEEP

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