The Regatta Mystery and other stories (2/9)

The Mystery of the Bagdad Chest


Murdered: Mr Clayton

• stabbed to the heart with a long knife, with no fingerprint
• left the party early
• found in the Bagdad Chest

Suspects:

1. Mrs Clayton- unloved marriage with Mr Clayton

• singular lovely women
• simple childlike candor
• claimed Major Rich, Jack's innocence 

2. Major Rich, Jack

3. Major Curtis-> soldierly build

4. Mr & Mrs Spences

• arrived first
• love dancing

5. Valet-> found stain on carpet, lifted the lid of the Chest and found Mr Clayton's body.

Leads-> Newly made holes in the chest (by Valet)

-> anyone coming in or going out will bang the door & the Valet would have noticed.

-> The screen that cuts off the draft from the bedroom door- was moved abit more to the left. It obscured the view of the chest.

-> (doctor's account)-> the murder must have committed in the evening when everyone is there. Anytime between 7pm and 9pm.

Content of died man's pocket

• handkerchief, loose change, pocket break, couple of bills, worn snapshot of Mrs Clayton, pocket Knife, gold pencil 

The Regatta Mystery and other stories (1/9)

The Regatta Mystery

Mystery: Jewelry, morning star was missing in the room, where 'noone' has left the room. Body Search was conducted on everyone.

Suspects:
1. Eve-> a schoolgirl

• bet to be able to steal it.
• claimed to have stolen the jewel, but the jewel was not with her.
• bobbling excited about the visit.

2. Isaac Pointz-> owner of the yacht and the Jewel.

• started saying that noone is going to be able to sell the Jewel.

3. Mr Leo Stein-> Isaac's partner

• blissfully ignorant about his shape

4. Lady Marroway-> damned smart looking women

5. Sir George-> Fishy eye

6. Mrs Rutington

• attractive and clever

Leads: Invited Parker Pyne

-> waiter came in to clear broken glass on the floor.
-> Eve claimed to use Plasticine to stick the Jewel on the wall, to prevent finding the Jewel on her. But now, the Jewel is really lost!

-> Parker was reminded of the typical theft from a gang, 'The MariaAmiaf'.

The golden ball & other stories part 2

This Novel is descriptive in its' characters. Extremely romantic. :)


Jane in search of a Job

• Jane Cleveland-> Young man looking at her with frank admiration. Until yesterday, I never saw a girl I felt I could marry. 

A fruitful Sunday

• Dorothy-> The price of a virtuous women is far above rubies.

The Golden Ball

• a big florid lady with peroxide hair came in expectantly.
•  George-> tossing an apple into Mary's lap, also symbolical. Yes, originally Eve gave Adam an apple, nowadays Adam gives Eve one.

Swan Song

• Miss Vera Rend-> Nazorkoff's secretary. Pale girl with an efficient manner.
• Nazorkoff-> She was a tall woman, and for a single not unduly fat. Her arms and legs were still slender and her neck was a beautiful column. Her hair, which was coiled in a great roll halfway down her neck, was of a dark, glowing red. Forty at least, but the lines of her face were still lovely, through the skin was loosened and wrinkled round the flashing, dark eyes. Had the laugh of a child, the digestion of an ostrich, temper of a fiend. 
• Bianca Capelli-> who sung beautifully the 'Torsa'
• Blanche Amrly -> Lady Rustonbury's 24 years old daughter. Slender girl with wide blue eyes. 

The hound of Death

• Sister Masie Angelique-> most uncanny creature, has hallucination, well worth seeing. Her eyes turned to me, a faint flush crept into her cheek. A shrill cry burst from her lips.
• Dr. Rose-> young and keen. Always take interest in Sister Marie. Pleasant, yet there was something about his personality that rather repelled me. It was too forceful to be altogether agreeable. 

The Gipsy

• Rachel, younger sister-> with Macfarlane

Macfarlane-> he had been unwilling to admit to himself the growing attraction that Rachel's childlike face and honest brown eyes had for him.

• with celtic imagination hidden away somewhere, listened and smoked. He had known an unburdening was coming.
• Like a man awakening from a dream, a warm rush of glad reality swept over him.
• "Rachel!" he said, and, lifting her chin, he kissed her lips.

Esther Lawes-Elder sister

• wrote awfully jolly letters to Dickie to cheer him up
• six foot one of Jewish perfection
• a shrewd portrait, he though, as he remembered her unusual height and the long slenderness of her
• marble whiteness of her face with its delicate down-drooping nose
• black splendor of hair and eyes
• had the boyish simplicity of Dickie Capitulated.
• Could never have made his own pulse beat one jot faster.

Dickie, Carpenter

• Engagement called off
• His craving for sea was in born
• There was something of the viking about him, primitive and direct, a nature on which subtleties of thought were wasted.
• He belonged to that inarticulate order of young Englishmen who dislike any form of emotion, and who find it peculiarly hard to explain their mental processes in words.

Mrs Hanorth

• very fair
• her hair was a lovely pale shining yellow.
• put her hand on Dickie's arm, warned him about going in
• her voice was just kind -- and very sorry
• warned Dickie about the Operation
• came out from nowhere
• when being enquired by her name, there was no such name in the house
• She brushed her hand quickly across her eyes. " I don't know, I fancied that we shouldn't meet again, that's all--goodbye."

The Lamp

Mrs Lancaster: Widow, buyer of the house No. 19

---Sinister Chill Setting---

• A more imaginative woman might have shivered, but this happened to be eminently practical
• tall, with much dark brown hair just tinged with grey and rather cold blue eyes.

Mr Winburn

Geoffrey-> Mrs Lancaster's son

The strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael

Introduction of Carmichael by Dr. Settle

• thoroughly normal in every respect
• a pleasant amiable boy, with no more than his fair share of concert, not brilliant intellectually perhaps, but an excellent type of the ordinary upper class young Englishman.

Dr. Edward Carstar-> eminent psychologist

Miss Phyllis Patterson

• charming girl
• sunlight enhanced the gleam of her glorious golden hair
• beautiful grey Persian cat twined itself lovingly round her feet as she walked
• certainly a very lovely girl, though her cheeks were pale, and her frank eyes were outlined with dark circle
• shrink against me a little, and I laid my hand soothingly on her arm
• her lips parted and her breath coming quickly, gazing earnestly at me

Lady Carmichael

• middle-aged but still beautiful woman rose as we entered and came forward with an outstretched hand
• I cannot explain the instinctive crave of repulsion that swept over me as I took the proffered hand of this charming and stately woman who moved with the dark and languorous grace that recalled SETTLE's surmise of oriental blood.

Arthur

• lost memory
• seemed vacant
• but rather slyly watchful

The Call of Wings

Sila Hamer

• The Sleeklines of Sila Hamer's body were amplified by the heavily fur-lined coat, and the white light emphasized the thick rolls of flesh beneath his chin.

Dick Borrow

• thin ascetic face and the star-grazing fanatical eyes.

The golden ball & other stories part1

This Novel is descriptive in its' characters. Extremely romantic. :)

Golden Ball

• Bill-> With a swing of his mighty arms, Bill lifted her right off her feet, crushing her to his breast. With a deep sigh, she yielded her lips in such a kiss as he had never dreamed of...
• Marchesis Bianca-> So ravishing was her beauty, the intoxication of her was so great, that strong men went down before her like ninepins, faint and helpless with love.
• Maud-> remembered the thrill with which he had admired the back of her white neck rising out of the blouse. => superior, good looking, clever, ladylike, always right about everything, make excellent wife, prudent, it was her virtues that drive him to desperate deeds.

Proposing to a girl => If the prospect are quite good enough, I mean to marry you next month.

Eward: "Will you?

She gazed at him, fascinated. There was awe and admiration in her eyes, and the sight of that look was intoxicating to Edward. 

• Bianca-> Voluptuous, In her swaying form
• Lady Noreen Elliot-> hair black as night. The heavy cloak that she wore swung. Wonderful scarlet lips open. Dress-> a kind of flame-colored sheath, outling her perfect body. Round her neck was a row of exquisite pearls. At the dance floor, she is wrapped in a wonderful embroidered shawl, sipped nonchalantly. Suddenly, she dropped the shrawl from her shoulders and rose. 'Let's dance'. Surprising she bent her head to him. For a moment he held her, her lips against his...  

5) The Sittaford Mystery

Inspector Narracott: The Sittaford Mystery

Murdered:

Captain Joseph Trevelyan:

- Had been prophesized to die by the 'Tommy Rot', the table turning seance, at 5.25am.

- was found died in the house at Exhampton; struck by a dark green baize tube.

- known to be women hater; disliked his servant, Mr Evan to marry a girl.

- Pro at skiing

- left a will that the inheritance goes to Pearson family, which is his nephew's family.

Crime Scene at Captain Trevelyan's house:

-window : deliberately broken rather than the burglar broke in

-because the window was not locked and forced open

- house was messed=> burglary?

- the trail to the house was covered by snow

- hence it was suspected to be done by a person whom Trevelyan knew.

'Tommy Rot' - the seance:

- conducted at Three Crown Motel at Sittaford, six miles away from Exhampton.

- characters involved: Major Burnably, Mr Ryrott, Violet, Mrs Willet, Ronnie Garfield and Miss Percehouse

- engaged a spirit called 'Ida', made some prophesy that seems to be

- The table could be shoved by someone.

It brings abomination to cheat with the spirits.

Suspects:

1) Evans:

- claimed that he did not return on that night, following his considerable master's order

- married to a girl whom Trevelyan did not like.

- claimed to be with his wife at home

2) Mrs Gardner- Trev's sis

- could have done it for inheritance because Trev was rich

- but has no news about pressing for money

3) Jim Pearson, nephew of Trev

- was seen visiting Trev on that night

- had ran away after hearing the news of death of Trev

- rather slow and edgy but has a clever solicitor, Miss Emily to be his fiance

- being the prime suspect, he was kept in prison while Miss Emily was out proving his innocence.

4) Charles Enderly, political journalist

- wanted to get close to Trevelyan to get hot news

- was working with Miss Emily to look for clues

- eying for Miss Emily to leave Jim for him

5) Major Burnably, close associate with Captain Trevelyan

- a friend who enjoy many activities with Captain Trevelyan.

- owed his life to Captain Trevelyan in the war time.

Clue:

- Ski Boot found hidden in the chimney, did not match with Trev's ski

- letter from the press about some research paper that was credited under Burnably's name.

Lead:

- Sittaford to Exhampton is downhill.