Timeworn Town (Munsey's Magazine, 1923)

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Timeworn Town (1923)
by J. S. Fletcher

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As serialized in Munsey's Magazine, vols 79 & 80, 1923 Aug–Dec, pp. 447–470, etc. First published in London in 1922 as In the Mayor's Parlour; also published as The Time-Worn Town and Behind The Panel. Reviews can be found on the Discussion page.

Richard Brent, a London newspaper man, comes to Hathelsborough to visit his cousin, John Wallingford, mayor of the old north country town. Bunning, caretaker of the Moot Hall, takes him upstairs to the mayor's office, where the two men are shocked to find Wallingford dead at his desk, stabbed through the body. In the room are two possible clews to the murderer—a cambric handkerchief, blood-stained and half burned, in the fireplace, and a long, sharp rapier thrown behind a bookcase.

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Timeworn Town

THE STORY OF THE STRANGE MURDER MYSTERY IN HISTORIC HATHELSBOROUGH

By J. S. Fletcher
Author of “The Town of Crooked Ways,” “The Harvest Moon,” etc.

Chapters (not listed in original)

PART I Aug 1923, 447
PART II Sept 1923, 670
PART III Oct 1923, 142
PART IV Nov 1923, 335
PART V Dec 1923, 561

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