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 The Mystery of 31 New Inn
As I look back through the years of my association with John Thorndyke, I am
able to recall a wealth of adventures and strange experiences such as falls to
the lot of very few men who pass their lives within hearing of Big Ben.
Many of these experiences I have already placed on record; but it now occurs to
me that I have hitherto left unrecorded one that is, perhaps, the most astonishing and
incredible of the whole series...

 The Red Thumb Mark
"Conflagratam An° 1677. Fabricatam An° 1698. Richardo Powell Armiger
Thesaurar." The words, set in four panels, which formed a frieze beneath the
pediment of a fine brick portico, summarised the history of one of the tall houses
at the upper end of King's Bench Walk and as I, somewhat absently, read over
the inscription, my attention was divided between admiration of the exquisitely
finished carved brickwork and the quiet dignity of the building, and an effort to
reconstitute the dead and gone Richard Powell, and the stirring times in which he played
his part...