Amateur Sleuth
epub |eng | 2019-03-13 | Author:John A. Vanek

Chapter Twenty-Six Sunday, July 30, 12:45 p.m. Making my way carefully back across the support beam, I put on my shoes, grabbed my sport coat and tie, and scrambled down ...
( Category: Mystery February 8,2023 )
epub |eng | 1946-02-15 | Author:Ray Bradbury [Bradbury, Ray]

I kicked the truant officer's shins and kicked him in the face ... Mama won't like that ... yes, mommy ... no mommy ... that's unfair ... that's not ethical ...
( Category: Mystery February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-22 | Author:Dorothy Leigh Sayers [Sayers, Dorothy Leigh]

[Pg 177] "That's an easy one," said Miss Marryat. IV.13. Seven out of twelve this number makes complete As the sun journeys on from seat to seat. XIV.13. My brothers ...
( Category: Mystery February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Harry Stephen Keeler

CHAPTER XIII The 6 Yellow Sheets Pardoll Leatherberry, in his woven willow wheelchair at the end of the big capacious screened-in front porch, and smoking his huge calabash pipe, watched ...
( Category: Mystery February 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-15 | Author:Harry Stephen Keeler [Keeler, Harry Stephen]

CHAPTER XXV The Cards Interpreted I was still sitting near the telephone, lost amidst the wilderness of my own thoughts, when Burke returned a full half-hour later. And I was ...
( Category: Mystery February 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-27 | Author:Harry Stephen Keeler

DOCUMENT LIII Title-page, cut by Dink Huff from book entitled “Etchings,” in private library in the town of Little Zanesville, Ohio, U.S.A. Etchings _______________________________________ A COLLECTION OF 11 UNIQUE AND ...
( Category: Mystery February 6,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Malcolm Shuman

13 He heard his name being called from far away and wondered, dreamily, who wanted him. He tried to answer, but his shouts were lost in a tunnel of silence. ...
( Category: Mystery February 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 1933-02-15 | Author:Harry Stephen Keeler [Keeler, Harry Stephen]

CHAPTER XVI QUESTION BEE! “Wal, boys,” commanded the Sheriff, with an attempt at blasé nonchalance which he personally feared was a fiasco, “set—all o’ you.” The derby-hatted last comer was ...
( Category: Mystery February 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-27 | Author:Peter Morfoot

27 The manner in which Daniela Wienawska lay sprawled over her mother put Flaco in mind of an orphaned puppy seeking suckle from a field mouse. ‘Daniela?’ Flaco was speaking ...
( Category: Mystery February 5,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Malcolm Shuman

FIVE The man called Mateo awoke with the boy standing beside the hammock. “Good morning,” Pablo said and grinned down at him. Mateo groaned and blinked. The sun would not ...
( Category: Mystery February 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-19 | Author:J. Michael Hunter

CHAPTER 12 Wednesday, December 17 The pain. It was so hard to think with the pain shooting up through his body. If he could only get up, but his back ...
( Category: Mystery February 4,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-12 | Author:Rick Ollerman [Ollerman, Rick]

Chapter Twenty Eight Fetterman woke up slowly, the skin on his face burning in the morning sun. He rocked the canoe as he pulled himself up into a sitting position ...
( Category: Mystery February 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-11 | Author:Harry Stephen Keeler

CHAPTER VI DISCUSSION ANENT 4 MEN IN A GREY TRUCK! The Sheriff’s head was already above the crest of rocks. And he was gesticulating violently, even as he was blinking ...
( Category: Mystery January 31,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-11 | Author:Harry Stephen Keeler

CHAPTER XI “PAW” ELUM Bill, turning from the wall-phone, found that the topknotted, skinny, calico-clad Mrs. Elum had vanished—rather, had become transformed miraculously into a most weird caricature of herself. ...
( Category: Mystery January 31,2023 )