The Twenty-One Clues
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| Author | J.J. Connington |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Sir Clinton Driffield |
| Genre | Detective |
| Publisher | Hodder and Stoughton |
Publication date | 1941 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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| Preceded by | For Murder Will Speak |
| Followed by | No Past Is Dead |
The Twenty-One Clues is a 1941 detective novel by the British author Alfred Walter Stewart, published under his pseudonym J.J. Connington.[1] It is the fourteenth in a series of seventeen novels featuring the Golden Age Detective Sir Clinton Driffield, the Chief Constable of a rural English county. It was published by Hodder and Stoughton in London and Little, Brown and Company in the United States.[2]
Synopsis
Two bodies are spotted by an engine driver in some bracken close to the railway line. A man and a woman, unmarried to each other and rumoured to have had an affair despite their respectable backgrounds, have apparently taken part in a suicide pact.
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