British Murder Mysteries: The Greatest Thrillers & True Crime Stories

... sentence lower in the page than the sentence at which she had left off. The first three words she saw riveted her attention anew — they were the first words she had met with in the letter which directly referred to George Bartram. In ...

... Goodman's voice was shaking , as he looked first at his tormentor , and then at the furnace which was already glowing a dull red ... light thrown by the furnace . Drummond was sitting on the floor grinning vacantly at space . " Gug , gug , ...

... Jefferson Hope packed all the eatables that he could find into a small parcel, and filled a stoneware jar with water, for he knew by experience that the mountain wells were few and far between. He had hardly completed his arrangements ...

... Tab had come by train, and there was a long walk to the station. He stayed to the very last moment, and then had to ... run, and then only caught the train as it was pulling out of the station. The inexorable and constitutionally discontented ...

... colossal dynamic experience. After all, energy is the ultimate physical ... action with movement and tempo with rhythm, and by constantly juggling ... pose of a moving object. By super-imposing each of these images successively on the ...

... explain the absence of Mr. Glass and the presence of Mr. Glass's hat? For Mr. Glass is not a careless man with his ... bald. Now when this is taken with the high-pitched and querulous voice which Miss MacNab described so vividly (patience, my ...

... value which no ordinary man could afford or of unique things of which nobody ... mystery—unless you know something about it?"; and again our friend cast an ... list of the stolen property. We must assume that they will make use of their ...

... mystery . We knew something of our man . He was subtle , resourceful , and absolutely ... list of them . Do you remember what they were ? " " Yes , quite well . There ... value of any fact will be , and on the further principle that , in ...

... dog nervous, too; or whether, being after all a brute, he is a bit of a bully; or whether his canine vanity (which ... stick at all. He'd probably go off nosing in whatever direction he suspected the mischief. But when once a dog is ...

... the girl made sure that she had hit upon the truth with her last words . The lovely lady was in black for her ... be a comfort to me on the journey . But if you go , you mustn't expect to get out to Oregon immediately . I mean to travel to ...

... form, and I've been tellin' him so. My best pal is a director of the Aigle ... chair, I sat as far forward as my own shape and the car's allowed; Sir ... massage from Sir Samuel's knees. Before Fontainebleau, I found myself in a familiar ...

... lair. When I flattered myself that I'd succeeded, I spoke again. "I see what you'd be at, Madame Machiavelli," I warned ... Beastess! Besides, you're only half right. It's true, poor Henry and I are worn out from sympathy. Our hearts are ...

... scarf to be caught in the dead man's hand and the very scent she used to be ... jasmine. As it happens I know she was in her room all the night. It was not ... scarf, well, it might be a piece from Lady Margaret's own for that matter ...

... điền , đổi thửa , tạo điều kiện cơ giới hoá sản xuất , đồng thời thực hiện ... hành tiết kiệm chi tiêu , tập trung ngân sách hỗ trợ cho việc khôi phục và ... văn hoá thể thao , giáo dục , đào tạo ... nhằm cung cấp nguồn lao động có chất ...

A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Mystery ... questions and answers here if you care to run your eye over them.' "He ... questions and answers as they stand. "'Whose was it?' "'His who is gone.' "'Who ...

... farewell - a smile which seemed at once patronizing and satirical — and went up- stairs . A few moments later Miss Dillard joined us . " Sigurd tells me you want to see Adolph . He , of course , won't mind ; but poor Lady Mae gets so ...

... GRILLE OVER WINDOWS West 48th . Street Benson's body was reclining in the chair in an attitude so natural that one almost expected him to turn to us and ask why we were intruding upon his privacy . His head was resting against the ...

The Beetle, Tom Ossington's Ghost, Crime and the Criminal, The Datchet Diamonds ... evidence at the inquest, and the discovery that there was a real James Southam in ... scene in the very nick of time. It was she who placed the knife with which ...

... street they separated, and each took a different way. Then they went to bed early and virtuously as befit men who have before them matters of importance on the morrow. On the whole they slept better than Nana Rau, Mahrajah of Curriebad.

... menhunched morosely intheir cabs. Whatkind of unimaginable bigger brother would have to be summoned now? The churnedup land lookedlike Guadalcanal. “1001Letters for AllOccasions” software had sequences ofseven dunning letters, like.

... the girl made sure that she had hit upon the truth with her last words . The lovely lady was in black for her ... be a comfort to me on the journey . But if you go , you mustn't expect to get out to Oregon immediately . I mean to travel to ...

... mystery . We knew something of our man . He was subtle , resourceful , and absolutely ... list of them . Do you remember what they were ? " " Yes , quite well . There ... value of any fact will be , and on the further principle that , in ...

... massage parlor. I definitely found some symmetry there for people who made their living in the underbelly of society. The sign on the door said simply Business Services. I opened it and entered the cramped office. Sitting at an Lshaped ...

... it won't!” he said evenly. “I didn't mean to give you that impression, and ... beat it then—and the next time start in fifty miles away, and you'd have to begin all over again. And, besides, who's receiving the messages? You can't put any ...

The Widow Lerouge, The Mystery of Orcival, Monsieur Lecoq, The Champdoce Mystery ... value by his violent professions of friendship for the accused. After ... list of witnesses summoned for the day was exhausted. But the task of M ...