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A vicar attempts to unravel the mystery of a murder that took place in his study, while his neighbor—an elderly spinster—takes an interest.

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“ Dear Griselda ⁠—If you and the vicar could come up and lunch here quietly today, I should be so very grateful. Something very strange has occurred, and I should like Mr. Clement’s advice.

“Please don’t mention this when you come, as I have said nothing to anyone.

“We must go, of course,” said Griselda.

I agreed.

“I wonder what can have happened?”

I wondered too.

“You know,” I said to Griselda, “I don’t feel we are really at the end of this case yet.”

“You mean not till someone has really been arrested?”

“No,” I said, “I didn’t mean that. I mean that there are ramifications, undercurrents, that we know nothing about. There are a whole lot of

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