Title Matter

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

"Murder in Four Degrees" appeared in 1931, and has five main parts:

Part One: Murder of Mr. Hannington

Part Two: Murder of the Unknown Woman

Part Three: Go North, Go South!

Part Four: Mrs. Goodge and the Hindu Servant

Part Five: The Swimming-Pool

A list of some of his other productions:
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)