To Jeffrey Bernerd...

“The jury cannot accept the unsupported suggestion⁠—unsupported even by the prisoner’s testimony since he has not gone into the box⁠—that Mr. Noah Stedland is a blackmailer and that he obtained a larg...

“Murder, my dear Manfred is the most accidental of crimes,” said Leon Gonsalez, removing his big shell-rimmed glasses and looking across the breakfast-table with that whimsical earnestness which was e...

“The death has occurred at Staines of Mr. Falmouth, late Superintendent of the Criminal Investigation Department. Mr. Falmouth will best be remembered as the Officer who arrested George Manfred, the l...

The interval between Acts II and III was an unusually long one, and the three men who sat in the stage box were in such harmony of mind that none of them felt the necessity for making conversation. Th...

There was a letter that came to Leon Gonsalez, and the stamp bore the image and superscription of Alphonse XIII. It was from a placid man who had written his letter in the hour of siesta, when Cordova...

On a pleasant evening in early summer, Leon Gonsalez descended from the top of a motor-omnibus at Piccadilly Circus and walking briskly down the Haymarket, turned into Jermyn Street apparently oblivio...

The most striking characteristics of Mr. Homer Lynne were his deep and wide sympathies, and his love of Tschaikovsky’s 1812. He loved music generally, but his neighbours in Pennerthon Road, Hampstead,...

On Sunday night Martaus Club is always crowded with the smartest of the smart people who remain in Town over the weekend. Martaus Club is a place of shaded lights, of white napery, of glittering silve...

But for the fact that he was already the possessor of innumerable coats-of-arms, quarterings, family mottoes direct and affiliated, Leon Gonsalez might have taken for his chief motto the tag homo sum,...

“Have you ever noticed,” said Leon Gonsalez, looking up from his book and taking off the horn-rimmed glasses he wore when he was reading, “that poisoners and baby-farmers are invariably mystics?” “I h...