Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I. THE “CANARY”

       CHAPTER II. FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW

       CHAPTER III. THE MURDER

       CHAPTER IV. THE PRINT OF A HAND

       CHAPTER V. THE BOLTED DOOR

       CHAPTER VI. A CALL FOR HELP

       CHAPTER VII. A NAMELESS VISITOR

       CHAPTER VIII. THE INVISIBLE MURDERER

       CHAPTER IX. THE PACK IN FULL CRY

       CHAPTER X. A FORCED INTERVIEW

       CHAPTER XI. SEEKING INFORMATION

       CHAPTER XII. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE

       CHAPTER XIII. AN ERSTWHILE GALLANT

       CHAPTER XIV. VANCE OUTLINES A THEORY

       CHAPTER XV. FOUR POSSIBILITIES

       CHAPTER XVI. SIGNIFICANT DISCLOSURES

       CHAPTER XVII. CHECKING AN ALIBI

       CHAPTER XVIII. THE TRAP

       CHAPTER XIX. THE DOCTOR EXPLAINS

       CHAPTER XX. A MIDNIGHT WITNESS

       CHAPTER XXI. A CONTRADICTION IN DATES

       CHAPTER XXII. A TELEPHONE CALL

       CHAPTER XXIII. THE TEN O’CLOCK APPOINTMENT

       CHAPTER XXIV. AN ARREST

       CHAPTER XXV. VANCE DEMONSTRATES

       CHAPTER XXVI. RECONSTRUCTING THE CRIME

       CHAPTER XXVII. A GAME OF POKER

       CHAPTER XXVIII. THE GUILTY MAN

       CHAPTER XXIX. BEETHOVEN’S “ANDANTE”

       CHAPTER XXX. THE END

      First appearances deceive many: the intelligence

       alone perceives what has been carefully

       hidden in the recesses of the mind.

      —Phædrus.

      CHARACTERS OF THE BOOK

      Philo Vance

      John F.-X. Makkham

      District Attorney of New York County.

      Margaret Odell (The “Canary”)

      Famous Broadway beauty and ex-Follies girl, who was mysteriously murdered in her apartment.

      Amy Gibson

      Margaret Odell’s maid.

      Charles Cleaver

      A man-about-town.

      Kenneth Spotswoode

      A manufacturer.

      Louis Mannix

      An importer.

      Dr. Ambroise Lindquist

      A fashionable neurologist.

      Tony Skeel

      A professional burglar.

      William Elmer Jessup

      Telephone operator.

      Harry Spively

      Telephone operator.

      Alys La Fosse

      A musical-comedy actress.

      Wiley Allen

      A gambler.

      Potts

      A street-cleaner.

      Amos Feathergill

      Assistant District Attorney.

      William M. Moran

      Commanding Officer of the Detective Bureau.

      Ernest Heath

      Sergeant of the Homicide Bureau.

      Snitkin

      Detective of the Homicide Bureau.

      Guilfoyle

      Detective of the Homicide Bureau.

      Burke

      Detective of the Homicide Bureau.

      Tracy

      Detective assigned to District Attorney’s office.

      Deputy-Inspector Conrad Brenner

      Burglar-tools expert.

      Captain Dubois

      Finger-print expert.

      Detective Bellamy