Project Gutenberg 2021-11-17 Public domain in the USA. 145 Fairman, Paul W. 1909 1977 Jarvis, E. K. Terry, W. E. 1921 1992 Terry, Willis E. Terry, Bill Dalrymple's Equation $aUnited States :$bGreenleaf Publishing Company,$c1956. Produced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy June 1956 Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Dalrymple's Equation" by Paul W. Fairman is a science fiction murder mystery written in the mid-1950s. The book revolves around the strange case of a young man found dead in a bar under suspicious circumstances, leading two homicide detectives to unravel the mystery. The intriguing plot combines elements of police work with a mathematical approach to problem-solving, introduced by a mysterious character named Tennyson Dalrymple, who claims to have come from another planet. The story unfolds when detectives Kennedy and Donovan are called to investigate the suspicious death of Arthur Davis, whose drink contains arsenic. Their investigation leads them to a bartender named Timothy Garver, who insists he is innocent. Unexpectedly, Dalrymple appears, claiming that he can solve the case using a mathematical equation. As the detectives reluctantly engage with Dalrymple, he presents a complex series of symbols that ultimately reveal that the poison was inadvertently added to the drinks by Garver, who was unaware it was lethal. The case, however, becomes more sinister as they discover connections to attempted murder. After solving the initial mystery, the story takes a twist as Dalrymple, now a suspect for possible future crimes, leaves the detectives to question if he is more than just a clever eccentric—touching on the implications of his true identity and intentions, leaving the detectives and readers with lingering questions about his abilities and origins. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20210313110716fairman 1956 US Reading ease score: 86.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Detective and mystery stories Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction Police -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: Novels 52582 2025-06-26T09:59:28.850452 text/html 28848 2024-10-18T17:06:23 text/html 387561 2025-06-26T09:59:30.644435 application/epub+zip 386404 2025-06-26T09:59:29.298462 application/epub+zip 75275 2025-06-26T09:59:29.040452 application/epub+zip 423824 2025-06-26T09:59:31.812479 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 416630 2025-06-26T09:59:30.433472 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 105600 2022-09-30T03:57:53.906320 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 45621 2025-06-26T09:59:28.736445 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 25721 2024-10-18T17:06:23 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18719 2025-06-26T09:59:31.939417 application/rdf+xml 29861 2025-06-26T09:59:29.152439 image/jpeg 4812 2025-06-26T09:59:29.097455 image/jpeg 461086 2025-06-26T09:59:28.862472 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia More titles under Jorgensen, Ivar