PART ONE

PAGE Foreword vii

CHAPTER

I. In Which Are Introduced a Theatre-Audience and a Corpse 3

II. In Which One Queen Works and Another Queen Watches 12

III. In Which a “Parson” Comes to Grief 29

IV. In Which Many Are Called and Two Are Chosen 47

V. In Which Inspector Queen Conducts Some Legal Conversations ♦56

VI. In Which the District Attorney Turns Biographer 79

VII. The Queens Take Stock 90