title: The Immaterial Murder Case (Inspector Bland)
author:  Julian Symons 
description: Julian Symons is primarily remembered as a master of the art of crime writing. However, in his eighty-two years he produced an enormously varied body of work. Social and military history, biography and criticism were all subjects he touched upon with remarkable success, and he held a distinguished reputation in each field. His novels were consistently highly individual and expertly crafted, raising him above other crime writers of his day. It is for this that he was awarded various prizes, and, in 1982, named as Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America  an honour accorded to only three other English writers before him: Graham Greene, Eric Ambler and Daphne Du Maurier. He succeeded Agatha Christie as the president of Britains Detection Club, a position he held from 1976 to 1985, and in 1990 he was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the British Crime Writers for his lifetimes achievement in crime fiction. Symons died in 1994.
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  # The Hospital Homicides Murder Case
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### George F. Worts
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
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  CHAPTER I. AT THE AIRPORT
  
  
  CHAPTER II. WHERE IS THE GHOST?
  
  
  CHAPTER III. THE HARRIDAN
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. SUDDEN DEATH
  
  
  CHAPTER V. MAD DOCTOR
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. ARSENIC
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. AN AMBITIOUS WOMAN
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. GILLIAN DECIDES
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. DAMAGING TESTIMONY
  
  
  CHAPTER X. ACCUSED!
  
  
  CHAPTER XI. THE NEW WILL
  
  
  CHAPTER XII. A FIT OF TEMPER
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII. GILLIAN'S LAST TRICK
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV. THE GUILTY ONE
  
  
  
  
  
  A Gillian Hazeltine Courtroom Mystery
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I. AT THE AIRPORT
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  WHEN the evening passenger plane from New York, thundering into a
  
  
  black gale, finally arrived at the Greenfield airport, it dropped one
  
  
  of its passengers into the very heart of a romantic mystery. The
  
  
  passenger was Gillian Hazeltine, the famous—or infamous—criminal
  
  
  lawyer, whose business was my