title: Inspector Smart and the Case of the Empty Tomb
author: Michael J. Tinker
description: Michael J Tinker is a professional musician working both as a performer (primarily folk music) and as a teacher in a variety of schools with elementary and junior high aged. He is married to Jo and they have three children.
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  # The Vanishing Man
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### R. Austin Freeman
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  This page copyright © 2003 Munsey's.
  
  
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  CHAPTER I. THE VANISHING MAN
  
  
  CHAPTER II. THE EAVESDROPPER
  
  
  CHAPTER III. JOHN THORNDYKE
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. LEGAL COMPLICATIONS AND A JACKAL
  
  
  CHAPTER V. THE WATERCRESS-BED
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. SIDELIGHTS
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. JOHN BELLINGHAM'S WILL
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. A MUSEUM IDYLL
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. THE SPHINX OF LINCOLN'S INN
  
  
  CHAPTER X. THE NEW ALLIANCE
  
  
  CHAPTER XI. THE EVIDENCE REVIEWED
  
  
  CHAPTER XII. A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII. THE CROWNER'S QUEST
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV. WHICH CARRIES THE READER INTO THE
  
  
  PROBATE COURT
  
  
  CHAPTER XV. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI. “O! ARTEMIDORUS, FAREWELL!”
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII. THE ACCUSING FINGER
  
  
  CHAPTER XVIII. JOHN BELLINGHAM
  
  
  CHAPTER XIX. A STRANGE SYMPOSIUM
  
  
  CHAPTER XX. THE END OF THE CASE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
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  THE VANISHI