know,” Vance rejoined. “I rather fancy, though, that it’s when your legal evidence is leading you irresistibly to your victim that you’ll need me most, what?”
And the remark, though intended merely as a good-natured sally, proved strangely prophetic.
THE "CANARY" MURDER CASE
First appearances deceive many: the intelligence
alone perceives what has been carefully
hidden in the recesses of the mind.
—Phædrus.
CHAPTER II. FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW
CHAPTER IV. THE PRINT OF A HAND
CHAPTER VII. A NAMELESS VISITOR
CHAPTER VIII. THE INVISIBLE MURDERER
CHAPTER IX. THE PACK IN FULL CRY
CHAPTER XI. SEEKING INFORMATION
CHAPTER XII. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
CHAPTER XIII. AN ERSTWHILE GALLANT
CHAPTER XIV. VANCE OUTLINES A THEORY
CHAPTER XV. FOUR POSSIBILITIES
CHAPTER XVI. SIGNIFICANT DISCLOSURES
CHAPTER XVII. CHECKING AN ALIBI
CHAPTER XIX. THE DOCTOR EXPLAINS
CHAPTER XX. A MIDNIGHT WITNESS
CHAPTER XXI. A CONTRADICTION IN DATES
CHAPTER XXII. A TELEPHONE CALL
CHAPTER XXIII. THE TEN O’CLOCK APPOINTMENT
CHAPTER XXV. VANCE DEMONSTRATES
CHAPTER XXVI. RECONSTRUCTING THE CRIME
CHAPTER XXVII. A GAME OF POKER
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE GUILTY MAN
CHAPTER XXIX. BEETHOVEN’S “ANDANTE”
CHARACTERS OF THE BOOK
Philo Vance
John F.-X. Makkham
District Attorney of New York County.
Margaret Odell (The “Canary”)
Famous Broadway beauty and ex-Follies girl, who was mysteriously murdered in her apartment.
Amy Gibson
Margaret Odell’s maid.
Charles Cleaver
A man-about-town.
Kenneth Spotswoode
A manufacturer.
Louis Mannix
An importer.
Dr. Ambroise Lindquist
A fashionable neurologist.
Tony Skeel
A professional burglar.
William Elmer Jessup
Telephone operator.
Harry Spively
Telephone operator.
Alys La Fosse
A musical-comedy actress.
Wiley Allen
A gambler.
Potts
A street-cleaner.
