The Black Mask Magazine (Vol. 5, No. 1 — April 1922)

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Author of “The Middle Temple Murder,” Etc., Etc.

Editor's Note.

The Black Mask takes pride in presenting herewith what it considers to be not only J. S. Fletcher’s masterpiece in mystery writing, but, as well, the best detective novel that has made its appearance since the heyday of Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes. Mr. Fletcher, as is well known, is the greatest living writer of mystery fiction. His earlier novel, “The Middle Temple Murder,” made a sensation upon its publication in America. We confidently believe that “Exterior to the Evidence” will duplicate its success.

At the extreme height of a broken and widespreading moorland a vast mass of dark rock rose abruptly from the heather and ling, and on its table-like crown some man or men had built a high and tapering cairn of stone.

A girl sat on a boulder at the foot of the rocks, on a cloudless afternoon in the middle of May, looking fixedly along a narrow sheep-track which ran towards the sharply defined edge of the moor. As a figure suddenly showed itself far off against the sky-line, the girl’s quick eyes recognised her lover, and she sprang to her feet and went forward to meet him.

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