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Fleming Stone

A detective whose quiet, unassuming manner conceals an unerring instinct for clues everyone else has swept away, arriving late to find what the police missed.

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Also known as Stone, Mr. Fleming Stone, Mr. Stone

First appearance: XXIII: Fleming Stone

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Fleming Stone enters the case after the household has been scrubbed, dusted, and polished into apparent hopelessness, yet he reads the immaculate rooms with the same ease others read a familiar page. Where the local…

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EMElizabeth MortonHUHuntTWTom WillardMVMadeleine Van …RFRob FessendenFSFleming Stone

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  • Central suspects and investigators
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