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“What!” The rector stared at him. “The Collyer emeralds—paste! Why, they have been admired by experts!”

“No. Not the Collyer emeralds,” Mr. Bechcombe contradicted. “The Collyer emeralds were magnificent gems. This worthless paste has been substituted.”

“Impossible! Who would do such a thing?” Mr. Collyer asked.

“Ah! That,” said Luke Bechcombe grimly, “we have got to find out.”

Published by Dean Street Press 2015
All Rights Reserved
First published in 1926 by The Bodley Head
Cover by DSP
Cover illustration shows detail from ‘Autumn Midnight' (1923) by Eric Gill
Introduction © 2015 Curtis Evans
ISBN 
978 1 
911095 04 0

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