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THE HEAVEN SENT WITNESS (Doubleday, Doran) is a collection of the best stories of crime and mystery by J. S. Fletcher, one of the most popular. English detective story writers. The volume contains twenty-one thrilling tales, each one a miniature novel packed with swift action and suspense. In the title story a man in the vestibule of a through express looks casually at his watch, and from that slender clue the police, build up a case which hangs a murderer. Another of the stories, "The Button and the Bank Note", explains how Detective Sergeant Hubbertson solved a murder which had puzzled the London police because he happened to sit next to a nervous young man in a tea shop.

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