This file uses _underscores_ to indicate italic text. New original cover
art included with this ebook is granted to the public domain.
Spelling, hyphenation, and italicisation of words like “dénouement” and
“finger-tip” are inconsistent between the different stories in the
printed source text and have not been standardised.
The following changes and corrections have been made:
• p. 159: Replaced “Thomas” with “Thames” in phrase “Thames could feel
the tenseness of the men’s bodies.”
• p. 159: Added comma after “servant” in phrase “He skated straight at
the Hindu servant, struck him, and bowled him over.”
• p. 213: Added period after phrase “He shook his head.”
• p. 231: Replaced “it” with “its” in phrase “in which the gilt glove
found at the woman’s throat had been carried to prevent its
handling.”
• p. 285: Replaced closing single with double quotation mark after
phrase “Shrimp and I are going to catch the boat for Brazil at five
o’clock!”
• p. 312: Replaced closing single with double quotation mark after
phrase “To me it is the lure of the unattainable.”
• p. 159: Replaced “its” with “it” in phrase “the law calls it murder.”
• p. 324: Removed stray apostrophe before phrase “I don’t see----.”