Table of Contents
Contents
Map of Area around Alexandria, Minnesota, 1899 x
Introduction xiii
1. “The Whole Thing Is Nothing But a Crude Hoax” 1
2. “I Guess You Haven’t Heard” 16
3. “Just Who Exactly Might the Two of You Be?” 28
4. “Rochester Knows” 41
5. “One Might As Well Have Stolen the Mona Lisa” 54
6. “Her Name Was Mary Robinson” 66
7. “Well, I Guess I Win” 79
8. “He Is Also Said to Be the Richest Swede in America” 96
9. “I Killed No One” 108
10. “Fooled You All” 121
11. “Give Me the Gun” 133
12. “There Was Something Very Wrong on That Farm” 145
13. “I Felt the Presence of a Horrible Chill” 158
14. “Murder Is Always Hard to Believe” 172
15. “I Have Formulated a Little Plan” 184
16. “You Will Have to Play Along” 196
17. “This Case Has Become a Conspiracy of Lies” 209
18. “I Do Not Have to Tell You What That May Mean” 222
19. “You Can Answer a Question for Me” 234
20. “I Don’t Like the Look of This” 245
21. “Bad Man” 257
22. “We Are Finished Here, Mr. Holmes” 272
23. “You Will Tell Us What You Have Done with the Rune Stone” 285
Epilogue: “Who Is to Say We Might Not Meet Again?” 297
Notes 303
Author’s Note 315
