Checkmate
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You are Richard Arden, weighing whether Mr. Longcluse, rich, attentive to your sister Alice, and evasive about his own history, deserves entry into the family. An old servant's unexplained fright at the sight of him is barely smoothed over before an evening at a public billiard match ends in murder: a small Frenchman is found stabbed in the smoking room, a man Longcluse admits speaking with only hours before. Longcluse doubles the reward for the killer and leaves in a cab, the room's suspicion still unsettled.
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- Four Wounds Beyond the Billiard RoomMortlake Hall and London