Lot No. 249

Lot No. 249 by Arthur Conan Doyle is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within general and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: Of the dealings of Edward Bellingham with William Monkhouse Lee, and of the cause of the great terror of Abercrombie Smith, it may be that no absolute and final judgment will ever be delivered.
It is true that we have the full and clear narrative of Smith himself, and such corroboration as he could This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.