The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

CONTENTS

Introduction

Family Tree

List of Characters

A Note on Money

Prologue

PART ONE: THE DEATH

1 To See What We Have Got to See

2 The Horror and Amazement

3 Shall Not God Search This Out?

PART TWO: THE DETECTIVE

4 A Man of Mystery

5 Every Clue Seems Cut Off

6 Something in Her Dark Cheek

7 Shape-Shifters

8 All Tight Shut Up

9 I Know You

10 To Look at a Star by Glances

11 What Games Goes On

12 Detective-Fever

13 A General Putting of This and That Together by the Wrong End

14 Women! Hold Your Tongues!

PART THREE: THE UNRAVELLING

15 Like a Crave

16 Better She Be Mad

17 My Love Turned

18 Surely Our Real Detective Liveth

19 Fairy-Lands of Fact

20 The Music of the Scythe on the Lawn Outside

Afterword

Notes

List of Illustrations

Bibliography

Acknowledgements