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  "She had fallen backwards through the open carriagedoor." _Frontispiece_]

  THE Crime and the Criminal

  BY RICHARD MARSH AUTHOR OF "THE BEETLE," "THE MYSTERY OF PHILIP BENNION'S DEATH," ETC., ETC.

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  WITH TWO FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS BY HAROLD PIFFARD

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  NEW YORK NEW AMSTERDAM BOOK COMPANY 1899

  CONTENTS.

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  BOOK I.--THE CRIME.

  CHAPTER I. THE OPEN DOOR.

  CHAPTER II. THE MAN WITH THE SILK HANDKERCHIEF.

  CHAPTER III. THE NAME ON THE SCRAP OF PAPER.

  CHAPTER IV. BLACKMAIL.

  CHAPTER V. THE FACE IN THE DARKNESS.

  CHAPTER VI. A CONFESSION.

  CHAPTER VII. A VISITOR.

  CHAPTER VIII.

  MORE THAN HIS MATCH.

  CHAPTER IX. FOR THE SECOND TIME.

  BOOK II.--THE CLUB.

  CHAPTER X. THE HONOUR OF THE CLUB.

  CHAPTER XI. WHAT MR. TENNANT HAD WRITTEN.

  CHAPTER XII. SIR HASELTON JARDINE.

  CHAPTER XIII. AN AFTERNOON CALL.

  CHAPTER XIV. SELLING BOOMJOPFS.

  CHAPTER XV. THE CLUB.

  CHAPTER XVI. DRAWING THE LOT.

  CHAPTER XVII. A LITTLE GAME.

  CHAPTER XVIII. DAMON AND PYTHIAS: A MODERN INSTANCE.

  CHAPTER XIX. THE PROMISE.

  CHAPTER XX. THE NEWS FROM TOWN.

  BOOK III.--THE WOMAN.

  CHAPTER XXI. THE ADVENTURES OF A NIGHT.

  CHAPTER XXII. LOUISE O'DONNEL'S FATHER.

  CHAPTER XXIII. MR. TOWNSEND COMES TO TEA.

  CHAPTER XXIV. WHAT MRS. CARRUTH SAW.

  CHAPTER XXV. MR. TOWNSEND'S DOUBLE.

  CHAPTER XXVI. ANNOUNCED!

  CHAPTER XXVII. MR. TOWNSEND IS MADE TO UNDERSTAND.

  CHAPTER XXVIII. THE PRISONER COMES INTO COURT.

  CHAPTER XXIX. THE TRIAL BEGINS.

  CHAPTER XXX. MR. TAUNTON'S EVIDENCE.

  CHAPTER XXXI. THE CASE FOR THE CROWN CONCLUDES.

  CHAPTER XXXII. MRS. CARRUTH REMOVES HER VEIL.