{"product_id":"2940013090293","title":"THE MYSTERY OF 31 NEW INN","description":"Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   I  THE MYSTERIOUS PATIENT\u003cbr\u003e  II  THORNDYKE DEVISES A SCHEME\u003cbr\u003e III  \"A CHIEL'S AMANG YE TAKIN' NOTES\"\u003cbr\u003e  IV  THE OFFICIAL VIEW\u003cbr\u003e   V  JEFFREY BLACKMORE'S WILL\u003cbr\u003e  VI  JEFFREY BLACKMORE, DECEASED\u003cbr\u003e VII  THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTION\u003cbr\u003eVIII THE TRACK CHART\u003cbr\u003e  IX  THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY\u003cbr\u003e   X  THE HUNTER HUNTED\u003cbr\u003e  XI  THE BLACKMORE CASE REVIEWED\u003cbr\u003e XII  THE PORTRAIT\u003cbr\u003eXIII  THE STATEMENT OF SAMUEL WILKINS\u003cbr\u003e XIV  THORNDYKE LAYS THE MINE\u003cbr\u003e  XV  THORNDYKE EXPLODES THE MINE\u003cbr\u003e XVI  AN EXPOSITION AND A TRAGEDY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Mysterious Patient\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs I look back through the years of my association with John Thorndyke,\u003cbr\u003eI am able to recall a wealth of adventures and strange experiences such\u003cbr\u003eas falls to the lot of very few men who pass their lives within hearing\u003cbr\u003eof Big Ben. Many of these experiences I have already placed on record;\u003cbr\u003ebut it now occurs to me that I have hitherto left unrecorded one that\u003cbr\u003eis, perhaps, the most astonishing and incredible of the whole series; an\u003cbr\u003eadventure, too, that has for me the added interest that it inaugurated\u003cbr\u003emy permanent association with my learned and talented friend, and marked\u003cbr\u003ethe close of a rather unhappy and unprosperous period of my life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMemory, retracing the journey through the passing years to the\u003cbr\u003estarting-point of those strange events, lands me in a shabby little\u003cbr\u003eground-floor room in a house near the Walworth end of Lower Kennington\u003cbr\u003eLane. A couple of framed diplomas on the wall, a card of Snellen's\u003cbr\u003etest-types and a stethoscope lying on the writing-table, proclaim it a\u003cbr\u003edoctor's consulting-room; and my own position in the round-backed chair\u003cbr\u003eat the said table, proclaims me the practitioner in charge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was nearly nine o'clock. The noisy little clock on the mantelpiece\u003cbr\u003eannounced the fact, and, by its frantic ticking, seemed as anxious as I\u003cbr\u003eto get the consultation hours over. I glanced wistfully at my\u003cbr\u003emud-splashed boots and wondered if I might yet venture to assume the\u003cbr\u003eslippers that peeped coyly from under the shabby sofa. I even allowed my\u003cbr\u003ethoughts to wander to the pipe that reposed in my coat pocket. Another\u003cbr\u003eminute and I could turn down the surgery gas and shut the outer door.\u003cbr\u003eThe fussy little clock gave a sort of preliminary cough or hiccup, as if\u003cbr\u003eit should say: \"Ahem! ladies and gentlemen, I am about to strike.\" And\u003cbr\u003eat that moment, the bottle-boy opened the door and, thrusting in his\u003cbr\u003ehead, uttered the one word: \"Gentleman.\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082180247792,"sku":"2940013090293","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013090293_p0.jpg?v=1763576315","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013090293","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}