The Nine of Hearts: A Novel
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About This Book
Edward Layton was willing to hang rather than bring dishonor to the woman he loved, and that outcome was looking likely as the evidence piled up against him for "the wilful murder of his wife, Agnes Layton, by the administration of poisonous narcotics".Read what happens in this classic tale of circumstantial evidence.
Chapters (28)(click to expand)
- CONTENTS
- Part the First
- The Trial of Edward Layton.
- Part the Second
- The Cable Message from America.
- Part the Third
- The Mystery of the Nine of Hearts.
- THE NINE OF HEARTS.
- PART THE FIRST.
- THE TRIAL OF EDWARD LAYTON.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- PART THE SECOND.
- THE CABLE MESSAGE FROM AMERICA.
- PART THE THIRD.
- THE MYSTERY OF THE NINE OF HEARTS.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- THE END.
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