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The botany pattern

Short story (4,470 words)

This is the fifth of the Papa Grand stories, narrated by Viaur.

A series of murders have been committed in the vicinity of a Judas tree. Eventually these are linked to the betrayal of a Resistance leader in the war. How has one person discovered the links between all the victims?

Published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, April 1965.