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Marquis, Henry. Henry Marquis was created by Melville Davisson Post (Colonel Braxton, Monsieur Jonquelle, Randolph Mason, Uncle Abner, Colonel Walker) and appeared in twenty short stories short stories and two collections and novels from 1915 to 1929, beginning with “The Man in the Green Hat” (Saturday Evening Post, Feb. 27 1915).

Sir Henry Marquis is the “chief of the Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard. He had been the English Resident in the Northwest provinces on the frontier of the Shan state.” He is familiar with India and Afghanistan and the ways of the native mind, and uses his knowledge of the locals and of western science to solve a variety of cases, like the murder of an American jewel inventor on the Indian frontier, who is found with every bone in his body crushed. (It’s the doing of the vile assassin Lal Gupta).

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