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The Bird with the Broken Wing

While staying with the Keeleys at their country house Mr Satterthwaite happens to be in the library while the young guests are holding a sėance.  Among the nonsensical messages is one clear one: QUIN and LAIDELL.  Before long there is a tragic death in the house and Satterthwaite, with the help of a message from Mr Quin, correctly determines that it wasn’t suicide, but murder!

This story is unusual in that it had no publishing history in magazines before being published in The Mysterious Mr Quin.

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