Produced by Sharon Joiner, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Transcriber's Notes: The Greek phrase on the title page has been transliterated and placed between +plus marks+. Every effort has been made to replicate this text as closely as possible, including most inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation. A list of examples of the above, as well as a list of changes (corrections of spelling and punctuation) made to the original text appears at the end of this book. ] * * * * * MYSTERY AT GENEVA An improbable tale of singular happenings by ROSE MACAULAY Author of "Dangerous Ages," "Potterism," etc. +hostis toia echei en hêdonê echei en hêdonê toia.+ LONDON: 48 PALL MALL W. COLLINS SONS & CO. LTD. GLASGOW MELBOURNE AUCKLAND Copyright 1922. LONDON AND GLASGOW: W. COLLINS SONS AND CO. LTD. MYSTERY AT GENEVA NEW NOVELS TYLER OF BARNET BERNARD GILBERT PILGRIM'S REST F. BRETT YOUNG PIRACY MICHAEL ARLEN BEANSTALK MRS. HENRY DUDENEY ROSEANNE E. MARIA ALBANESI BIG PETER ARCHIBALD MARSHALL NOTE As I have observed among readers and critics a tendency to discern satire where none is intended, I should like to say that this book is simply a straightforward mystery story, devoid of irony, moral or meaning. It has for its setting an imaginary session of the League of Nations Assembly, but it is in no sense a study of, still less a skit on, actual conditions at Geneva, of which indeed I know little, the only connection I have ever had with the League being membership of its Union. 1 Henry, looking disgusted, as well he might, picked his way down the dark and dirty corkscrew stairway of the dilapidated fifteenth century house where he had rooms during the fourth (or possibly it was the fifth) Assembly of the League of Nations. The stairway, smelling of fish and worse, opened out on to a narrow cobbled alley that ran between lofty mediæval houses down from the Rue du Temple to the Quai du Seujet, in the ancient wharfside quarter of Saint Gervais.