CHAPTER III: Instructions for a Murder
CHAPTER IV: Appointment With Danger
CHAPTER V: In Which Mrs Moffat Receives a Visitor
FRANCIS DURBRIDGE
Send for Paul Temple
CHAPTER I: Conference at Scotland Yard
CHAPTER III: Death of a Detective
CHAPTER IV: Again the Green Finger
CHAPTER VI: The Knave of Diamonds
CHAPTER VII: The Shaping of a Mystery
CHAPTER VIII: A Message From Scotland Yard!
CHAPTER XI: Murder at Scotland Yard
CHAPTER XIII: A Present From the Knave!
CHAPTER XIV: Behind the Scenes
CHAPTER XV: The Wristlet Watch
CHAPTER XVII: The Secret of the Lift
CHAPTER XVIII: The Commissioner’s Orders
CHAPTER XXI: The First Penguin
CHAPTER XXIII: A Surprise for Temple
CHAPTER XXIV: Recovery and Escape
CHAPTER XXV: Amelia Victoria Bellman
CHAPTER XXVI: Horace and the Bridge
CHAPTER XXIX: The Meeting Is Adjourned
CHAPTER XXX: Even If It’s the Commissioner!
CHAPTER XXXI: Enter the Knave!
CHAPTER XXXII: And Exit the Knave!
‘Superintendent Harvey and Inspector Dale, sir!’
‘All right, Sergeant, you can go. Let me have the map some time before noon.’
Sir Graham Forbes, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, stood up to greet the new arrivals. He was a tall man with iron-grey hair and a sparse figure. Even the black coat and striped trousers, which gave him the appearance of a City stockbroker, could not conceal that his early career had been spent with the Army. He contrasted strangely with the two men who now came into his office at Scotland Yard.
Dale was a man of medium height and build who always seemed unhappy and helpless without his bowler hat, and the umbrella which nobody ever remembered seeing unfurled.
The superintendent was a full head taller. He was a man of mighty