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Number Seventeen

Number Seventeen

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Number of Chapters: 17

Length: 09 hours and 05 minutes

Language: English

The number Seventeen refers (at first) to the London apartment of a young widow who is strangled (off-scene) at the beginning of the book. Her neighbor, novelist Frank Theydon, joins with millionaire-philanthropist James Forbes to bring the murderer to justice. In the end, we discover that there is another sinister meaning to the number seventeen.

The international theme is dominant, beginning with a discussion of the possible danger posed by advances in air technology: will such advances bring the weapons of war to the skies – as submarines bring them to the seas? (The book was written before World War I.) This theme dominates the book, whose Asian “bad guys” represent the so-called Yellow Peril (widespread fears that the growing powers of Japan, China and other Asian countries posed great threats to the west).

“The law” is here represented by Scotland Yard’s Chief Superintended Winter and his friend, enemy and side-kick, Inspector Furneaux. Winter is big, burly, friendly, straight-forward and conventional. Furneaux is (of course, representing Winter’s opposite) small, puny, uncannily intuitive, often devious and unconventional.

- Summary by Kirsten Wever

Chapter 1: The Outcome of Artistic Curiosity (Kirsten Wever)

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Chapter 1: The Outcome of Artistic Curiosity (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 2: The Compact (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 3: In the Toils (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 4: A Telephonic Talk and Its Consequences (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 5: A Leap in the Dark (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 6: Close Quarters (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 7: Wherein Mr. Forbes Explains Himself (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 8: The First Counter-Stroke (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 9: Sharp Work (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 10: Captures on Both Sides (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 11: The Reappearance of Handyside (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 12: No Surrender (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 13: Some New Moves in the Game (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 14: Wherein Theydon Suffers From Faint Heart (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 15: Forceful Tactics (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 16: Wherein Unexpected Allies Appear (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 17: The Settlement (Kirsten Wever)
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