The Bat
A Novel
From the Play by
MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
And AVERY HOPWOOD
NEW 
YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
Copyright 1926,
By George H. Doran Company
"THE BAT COPYRIGHT, 1926, BY
MARY ROBERTS RINEHART AND AVERY HOPWOOD
THE BAT
—A—
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CONTENTS
| chapter | ||
| One | The Shadow of the Bat | 9 |
| Two | The Indomitable Miss Van Gorder | 24 |
| Three | Pistol Practice | 43 |
| Four | The Storm Gathers | 60 |
| Five | Alopecia and Rubeola | 76 |
| Six | Detective Anderson Takes Charge | 96 |
| Seven | Cross-Questions and Crooked Answers | 114 |
| Eight | The Gleaming Eye | 128 |
| Nine | A Shot in the Dark | 145 |
| Ten | The Phone Call from Nowhere | 160 |
| Eleven | Billy Practices Jiu-Jitsu | 176 |
| Twelve | "I Didn't Kill Him" | 192 |
| Thirteen | The Blackened Bag | 208 |
| Fourteen | Handcuffs | 225 |
| Fifteen | The Sign of the Bat | 240 |
| Sixteen | The Hidden Room | 259 |
| Seventeen | Anderson Makes an Arrest | 269 |
| Eighteen | The Bat Still Flies | 281 |
| Nineteen | Murder on Murder | 294 |
| Twenty | "He Is—The Bat!" | 309 |
| Twenty-One | Quite a Collection | 316 |
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