Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Publisher information; Dedications; Body matter; One: Tea Time for Death; Two: Coshed!; Three: Murder; Four: Lovers Parting; Five: Notes from the Dead; Six: Questions in Clubland; Seven: It Pays to Advertise; Eight: Suspicions; Nine: A Hint of Scandal; Ten: Playing Sleuth; Eleven: The Paradoxical Mr. Chesterton; Twelve: So Many Suspects; Thirteen: Process of Elimination; Fourteen: The 43; Fifteen: The Diogenes Club; Sixteen: Corpse of a Killer; Seventeen: A Scandal Explained; Eighteen: The Seven Solutions of Sherlock Holmes; Nineteen: Rival. and Twenty: DronesTwenty-One: The Unmasking; Twenty-Two: Baker Street; Twenty-Three: From Dancing to the Docks; Twenty-Four: Unraveling a Tangled Skein; Twenty-Five: Lady Sarah Demurs; Back matter; Notes for the Curious; A Word of Thanks; About the Authors; Also available.
Summary
London, 1922: Two years after helping Sherlock Holmes solve the Hangman Murders, American journalist Enoch Hale becomes even more intimately involved in another puzzling mystery. Langdale Pike, veteran purveyor of gossip to the trash newspapers, is poisoned while sipping tea with Hale - and apparently just as he is about to spill a secret more important than social gossip. With the unrequested aid of advertising copywriter Dorothy Sayers, Hale pursues a number of leads based on notes in Pike ...
