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About eleven o'clock on the night of Monday, May 12, 1914, Marshall Allerdyke, a bachelor of forty, a man of great mental and physical activity, well known in Bradford as a highly successful manufacturer of dress goods, alighted at the Central Station in that city from an express which had just arrived from Manchester, where he had spent the day on business.
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Fiction, mystery & detective, general
First published 1922About the author
Joseph Smith Fletcher
7 February 1863 – 30 January 1935
J. S. Fletcher (full name Joseph Smith Fletcher) was a British journalist, writer, and fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He studied law before turning to journalism. He was known as one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the early days of the Golden Age of Detection.
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