Connington: The Case with Nine Solutions

“Two people, a man and a woman, have met violent deaths at about the same time, and it soon becomes apparent that the two deaths are connected in some way. . . . It is Sir Clinton [Driffield] who sets down the nine possible solutions and then proceeds to eliminate them one by one until only the true solution is left. It is not an easy matter, for the trail is obscured by false clues ingeniously devised for the purpose of leading the investigator astray. The reader is put in possession of all the facts in the case as they become known to the investigator, and if the reader is as clever as Sir Clinton Driffield he will inevitably arrive at the same conclusion.” (Missoula, MT, Missoulian, 1929)