When the whole tale had been told, Cyril Norton leaned back in his chair and turned so as to look his uncle full in the face.
“Well, now that you know the whole affair, may we ask what you are going to do?”
Colonel Sanderstead sat silent for a few moments while the others watched him keenly. At last he condensed his reply into a single word:
“Nothing!”
“So we guessed,” said Cyril Norton, “otherwise you’d never have heard the tale at all.”
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(a.k.a. Grim Vengenace)
The Boathouse Riddle (1931)
The Sweepstake Murders (1931)
The Castleford Conundrum (1932)
The Ha-Ha Case (1934)
(a.k.a. The Brandon Case)
In Whose Dim Shadow (1935)
(a.k.a. The Tau Cross Mystery)
A Minor Operation (1937)
Murder Will Speak (1938)
Truth Comes Limping (1938)
The Twenty-One Clues (1941)
No Past is Dead (1942)
Jack-in-the-Box (1944)
Common Sense Is All You Need (1947)
Supt Ross Mysteries
The Eye in the Museum (1929)
The Two Tickets Puzzle (1930)
Novels
Death at Swaythling Court (1926)
The Dangerfield Talisman (1926)
Tom Tiddler’s Island (1933)
(a.k.a. Gold Brick Island)
The Counsellor (1939)
The Four Defences (1940)
J. J. Connington (1880–1947)
Alfred Walter Stewart, who wrote under the pen name J. J. Connington, was born in Glasgow, the youngest of three sons of Reverend Dr Stewart. He graduated from Glasgow University and pursued an academic career as a chemistry professor, working for the Admiralty during the First World War. Known for his ingenious and carefully worked-out puzzles and in-depth character development, he was admired by a host of his better-known contemporaries, including Dorothy L. Sayers and John Dickson Carr, who both paid tribute to his influence on their work. He married Jessie Lily Courts in 1916 and they had one daughter.
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