The cover page is adapted from Lincoln Cathedral—The Cloisters, a painting completed in 1880 by Edward R. Taylor. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_R._Taylorwww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
The Paradise Mystery
Chapters (27)
- I: Only the Guardian 0:00
- II: Making an Enemy 19:36
- III: St. Wrytha’s Stair 38:23
- IV: The Room at the Mitre 57:44
- V: The Scrap of Paper 1:16:42
- VI: By Misadventure 1:36:23
- VII: The Double Trail 1:55:20
- VIII: The Best Man 2:15:33
- IX: The House of His Friend 2:34:09
- X: Diplomacy 2:53:31
- XI: The Back Room 3:12:29
- XII: Murder of the Mason’s Labourer 3:30:23
- XIII: Bryce Is Asked a Question 3:48:47
- XIV: From the Past 4:06:34
- XV: The Double Offer 4:24:52
- XVI: Beforehand 4:45:31
- XVII: To Be Shadowed 5:01:41
- XVIII: Surprise 5:24:10
- XIX: The Subtlety of the Devil 5:38:30
- XX: Jettison Takes a Hand 5:58:20
- XXI: The Saxonsteade Arms 6:17:14
- XXII: Other People’s Notions 6:35:23
- XXIII: The Unexpected 6:53:51
- XXIV: Finesse 7:11:35
- XXV: The Old Well House 7:27:36
- XXVI: The Other Man 7:43:46
- XXVII: The Guarded Secret 8:00:15
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The cathedral of Wrychester has adjacent to it a beautiful and ancient garden known locally as “Paradise.” One morning, a man, not known locally, plunges to his death from the cathedral tower into that very garden. Pemberton Bryce, a young doctor freshly fired from the medical practice in the cathedral Close, is called to the scene. Glimpsing the senior doctor who fired him in an agitated state, he quickly calculates how he can turn to his advantage the facts that he alone possesses—and the prize he’s determined to win is the beautiful ward of his erstwhile employer.
While the plot of The Paradise Mystery may not conform wholly to the rules that the Detection Club later sought to impose on the crime fiction of the Golden Age, J. S. Fletcher still constructs a satisfying mystery that deepens with each twist of the tale.