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The Riddle of the Purple Emperor

The Riddle of the Purple Emperor

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Number of Chapters: 25

Length: 8 hours and 18 minutes

Language: English

Orphan Lady Margaret Cheyne returns home on her eighteenth birthday to live with her embittered maiden aunt and to take up her inheritance of the family jewels. The Cheyne jewels include a pendant featuring the Purple Emperor, a priceless jewel looted from a temple during the Indian Mutiny.

During her time at school in Paris, Lady Margaret has met and fallen in love with Sir Edgar Brenton, the son of an old flame of her aunt and a neighbour in the village of Hampton, where Cleek's adored Ailsa Lorne has also taken up residence.

Lady Margaret's return leads to a mysterious and sinister chain of events, which Cleek and Superintendent Maverick Narkom of Scotland Yard attempt to unravel, with, of course, the help of the irrepressible and ever-hungry Dollops, Cleek's cockney sidekick.

This full-length mystery is a welcome return for Hamilton Cleek, whom we first met in Cleek: The Man of the Forty Faces. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

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01 - Chapter I Which Introduces a New Friend (Ruth Golding)
02 - Chapter II The Home-Coming (Ruth Golding)
03 - Chapter III In the Dark (Ruth Golding)
04 - Chapter IV The House of Shadows (Ruth Golding)
05 - Chapter V The Threads of Chance (Ruth Golding)
06 - Chapter VI The Cry in the Night (Ruth Golding)
07 - Chapter VII In the Tiger's Clutches (Ruth Golding)
08 - Chapter VIII Complications and Complexities (Ruth Golding)
09 - Chapter IX The House with the Shuttered Windows (Ruth Golding)
10 - Chapter X A Shot in the Dark (Ruth Golding)
11 - Chapter XI A Terrible Discovery (Ruth Golding)
12 - Chapter XII The Woman in the Case (Ruth Golding)
13 - Chapter XIII Tightening the Strands (Ruth Golding)
14 - Chapter XIV The Plot Thickens (Ruth Golding)
15 - Chapter XV Tangled Threads (Ruth Golding)
16 - Chapter XVI In the Doctor's Surgery (Ruth Golding)
17 - Chapter XVII Miss Cheyne Again (Ruth Golding)
18 - Chapter XVIII Dollops Takes a Hand (Ruth Golding)
19 - Chapter XIX The Twin Scarves (Ruth Golding)
20 - Chapter XX A Twisted Clue (Ruth Golding)
21 - Chapter XXI 'Tis a Mad World, My Masters (Ruth Golding)
22 - Chapter XXII The Trap (Ruth Golding)
23 - Chapter XXIII Untwisting the Threads (Ruth Golding)
24 - Chapter XXIV An Unexpected Contretemps (Ruth Golding)
25 - Chapter XXV A Tale Unfolded (Ruth Golding)
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