Title Matter

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Joseph Smith Fletcher was born in Halifax in 1863, and educated at Silcoates School in Wakefield. He gave us more than a hundred detective novels.

The present book has twenty-three chapters:
1.     The Man Who Saw
2.     The Man Who Came Back
3.     The Witness-Box
4.     The American Photograph
5.     The Hotel Note-Paper
6.     Face to Face
7.     Hush Money
8.     The American Cablegram
9.     Shino
10.   The Sixpenny Surgery
11.   Mystery of Miss Walker
12.   Mystery of the Young Waiter
13.   Developments
14.   Tracks
15.   What the Parlourmaid Heard
16.   Under Examination
17.   Home-Made Toffee
18.   He Knows Nothing
19.   Cornered
20.   Out with It!
21.   The Hooded Lady
22.   The Empty House
23.   Wanted!

List of some of his novels:
    Frank Carisbroke's Stratagem (1888)
    Andrewlina (1889)
    Mr. Spivey's Clerk (1890)
    When Charles the First Was King (1892)
    In the Days of Drake (1895)
    Where Highways Cross (1895)
    Mistress Spitfire (1896)
    Baden Powell of Mafeking (1900)
    Lucian the Dreamer (1903)
    Perris of the Cherry-Trees (1913)
    The King versus Wargrave (1915)
    The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation (1917)
    Paul Campenhaye (1918)
    The Chestermarke Instinct (1918)
    The Borough Treasurer (1919)
    The Middle Temple Murder (1919)
    The Talleyrand Maxim (1919)
    Scarhaven Keep (1920)
    The Herapath Property (1920)
    The Lost Mr. Linthwaite (1920)
    The Orange-Yellow Diamond (1920)
    The Markenmore Mystery (1921)
    The Root of All Evil (1921)
    Wrychester Paradise (1921)
    In the Mayor's Parlour (1922)
    Ravensdene Court (1922)
    The Middle of Things (1922)
    The Million Dollar Diamond (1923)
    The Charing Cross Mystery (1923)
    The Mazaroff Murder (1923)
    The Kang-He Vase (1924)
    The Safety Pin (1924)
    Sea Fog (1925)
    The Bedford Row Mystery (1925)
    The Cartwright Gardens Murder (1925)
    The Mill of Many Windows (1925)
    The Passenger to Folkestone (1927)
    Dead Men's Money (1928)
    The Ransom for London (1929)
    Murder at Wrides Park (1931)
    Murder in Four Degrees (1931)
    Murder of the Ninth Baronet (1932)
    Murder in the Squire's Pew (1932)
    The Borgia Cabinet (1932)
    The Solution of a Mystery (1932)