epub |eng | 2022-02-08 | Author:Lorac, E.C.R.

Chapter X When Macdonald decided to walk from Upwood House to the post-box shortly after midnight, he was simply putting into practice a theory of his own to the effect ...

epub |eng | 2019-09-01 | Author:Max Brand [Brand, Max]

* * * CHAPTER EIGHT IT came over Kildare suddenly, as he regarded the judge, that he needed above all the support of the strongest friend he possessed in the ...

epub |eng | 2019-09-08 | Author:Max Brand [Brand, Max]

DR. LEONARD GILLESPIE, HOURS 12 A.M. TO 12 A.M. It would have been a dry jest from another man. It was cold fact, coming from Gillespie. Then Gillespie himself came ...

epub |eng | 2019-09-11 | Author:Max Brand [Brand, Max]

* * * X. — AN EYE AND A GIFT KILDARE walked all the way back to the hospital but he could not walk the preconception out of his mind. ...

epub |eng | 2019-09-11 | Author:Max Brand [Brand, Max]

* * * CHAPTER 6 KILDARE, face down on a couch in his office, wakened with a haunting sense of something important that must be done at once. When he ...

epub |eng | 2018-09-15 | Author:Anne Cleeland [Cleeland, Anne]

Poor man, thought Doyle, as she walked beside Timothy McGonigal in the echoing hallway; he’s been wound ʼround the axle, and there’s no mistaking. They were wandering though the impressive ...

epub |eng | 2019-09-10 | Author:Anne Cleeland [Cleeland, Anne]

Chapter 22 S omethin’s up,” Doyle admitted. “I wish I knew what it was.” “Didn’t you hear what he said?” asked the heiress in surprise. With a negligent gesture, she ...

epub |eng | 2007-12-06 | Author:Gene Grossman [Grossman, Gene]

The only other people I’d really like to talk to now are the ones that built and installed Balscomb’s safe-rooms, because I have a couple of questions for them. I ...

epub |eng | 2015-06-17 | Author:Richard Powell [Powell, Richard]

Ten This was Reno. It was filled with people trying to hit jackpots on slot machines and hoping to break the bank at roulette and blackjack and faro. Compared to ...

epub |eng | 2002-03-12 | Author:Gregory McDonald [McDonald, Gregory]

Twenty 3:30 P.M. COMPUTERS AND LABOR UNIONS Seminar Aunt Sally Hendricks Sewing Room At three-thirty Wednesday afternoon all the tennis courts were in use, the swimming pool area was full, ...

epub |eng | 2015-02-03 | Author:Barbara Block [Block, Barbara]

My North Side friends tell me Rocco’s hasn’t changed in thirty years, and from the way it looks I believe them. I pushed my way through the crowd of people ...

epub |eng | 2019-08-16 | Author:James R. Nelson [Nelson, James R.]

### Stephen was back in his room and was about to call his uncle, when the phone rang. It was Jeanette. He gripped the receiver tighter as she talked. Finally, ...

epub |eng | 2020-02-26 | Author:Orrin Onken [Onken, Orrin]

Chapter 9 I had lied to Ben. In the world I knew, once a professional fiduciary got his or her bony hands on you, she was there until they planted ...

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epub |eng | 2018-02-04 | Author:E C R Lorac [Lorac, E C R]

Chapter IX When Macdonald returned to Scotland Yard after his talk with Mr. Todbury, it was nearly half-past four. His note-book testified to a good day’s work, being entered up ...