The Orange-Yellow Diamond
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J. S. Fletcher
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The Orange-Yellow Diamond is a thirty-nine-chapter detective novel by the British crime writer J. S. Fletcher, set in the London of 1912 and opening in the pawnshop of Daniel Multenius in Praed Street, Paddington. Andrew Lauriston, a poor young literary Scotsman of twenty-two from Peebles, lodges in Star Street with Mrs. Flitwick and, at the end of his resources, takes two old diamond rings — his dead mother's — to the pledge office to raise a little money. The house is kept by Zillah Wildrose, the old man's granddaughter, whose cousin Melky Rubinstein, a small jeweller's agent, lives below; and the old pawnbroker, seventy-five, once Daniel Molteno of Houndsditch, talks of a red-sealed box he is to fetch from his bank and of a platinum solitaire stud he has bought. That same evening Lauriston returns to find Multenius dead behind his counter, strangled and gripped by the right arm, and from that moment the rings, the studs, a gold-clasped Morocco-bound Spanish manuscript and a fortune in dead men's property draw him, Melky and Zillah, Detective-Sergeant Ayscough and the local Inspector into a case that will not stop at one death. A second body — the fruiterer Parslett, poisoned in his own shop — the inquest and its counsel Parminter, the bruised five-hundred-pound bank note under a table leg at Molteno Lodge, the burnt gilt box in the grate, the two letters from Cape Town signed Stephen Purvis, and the eight thousand pounds in bank notes all point the same way: to Spencer Levendale, M.P., of Sussex Square, who is in truth Sam Levin, a South African diamond man grown rich and respectable, and to the orange-yellow diamond itself — a stone of a hundred and twenty carats worth eighty or ninety thousand pounds, hidden in the queue of a murdered Chinese medical student, Chen Li, and carried off by Mr. Mori Yada, a Japanese student of Gower Street, who walks into the mortuary on Ayscough's own card, takes the stone from the dead man's hair, and is hunted through...
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