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The Middle Temple Murder
Chapters (36)
- I: The Scrap of Grey Paper 0:00
- II: His First Brief 13:41
- III: The Clue of the Cap 27:27
- IV: The Anglo-Orient Hotel 41:34
- V: Spargo Wishes to Specialize 55:08
- VI: Witness to a Meeting 1:08:50
- VII: Mr. Aylmore 1:22:52
- VIII: The Man from the Safe Deposit 1:37:02
- IX: The Dealer in Rare Stamps 1:51:17
- X: The Leather Box 2:05:01
- XI: Mr. Aylmore Is Questioned 2:18:59
- XII: The New Witness 2:32:05
- XIII: Under Suspicion 2:43:33
- XIV: The Silver Ticket 2:54:56
- XV: Market Milcaster 3:08:34
- XVI: The “Yellow Dragon” 3:23:08
- XVII: Mr. Quarterpage Harks Back 3:37:28
- XVIII: An Old Newspaper 3:52:23
- XIX: The Chamberlayne Story 4:04:25
- XX: Maitland Alias Marbury 4:18:35
- XXI: Arrested 4:32:07
- XXII: The Blank Past 4:44:52
- XXIII: Miss Baylis 4:58:13
- XXIV: Mother Gutch 5:09:19
- XXV: Revelations 5:22:22
- XXVI: Still Silent 5:35:14
- XXVII: Mr. Elphick’s Chambers 5:47:44
- XXVIII: Of Proved Identity 5:59:50
- XXIX: The Closed Doors 6:13:23
- XXX: Revelation 6:27:00
- XXXI: The Penitent Window-Cleaner 6:40:11
- XXXII: The Contents of the Coffin 6:52:05
- XXXIII: Forestalled 7:05:22
- XXXIV: The Whip Hand 7:18:58
- XXXV: Myerst Explains 7:31:23
- XXXVI: The Final Telegram 7:45:35
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Spargo, reporter extraordinaire for the Watchman, stumbles over a murdered man in London’s Middle Temple Lane, and, based on a journalistic hunch, decides to investigate. As the circle of interest widens, strange connections start to emerge; connections that lead towards an unsuspected conspiracy of twenty years before.
The Middle Temple Murder is one of the prolific J. S. Fletcher’s most popular works. It builds on his earlier short story “The Contents of the Coffin,” and was published in 1919 as one of three novels he wrote that year. President Woodrow Wilson publicly praised the work, which helped Fletcher earn U.S. acclaim and eventually a publishing deal.