Grant, Maxwell - The Shadow 177 - Noose of Death by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Detective, Mystery, Crime, Suspense, Adventure, Thriller
Publisher: Street & Smith Publications
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

BISHOP went upstairs and stopped for a brief moment at the doorway of Manning’s private office.

Manning repeated what the clerk had said so innocently downstairs: “Was everything satisfactory?”

But there was a difference in the way he said it. His thin lips twisted sneeringly below his brownish mustache. He was jeering at Bishop - and Bishop knew it. But the gambler kept his temper.

The thing that bothered the gambler was the expression in Manning’s eyes. There was a definite threat in his slow stare. It was more than antagonism. It was cold menace.

Bishop felt a quiver run up and down his spine like the touch of ice. Without a word, he turned and crossed the pleasant village street to his hotel.

He had left his car parked at the curb. There were mud splashes on it that made it look a bit conspicuous. A few dead leaves were plastered against the fenders and the bumper. Bishop decided to take it to a garage and have it washed.

When he reached the car, however, he suddenly stopped short. He had left the window closed that was facing the sidewalk. It was now open!

For an instant, Bishop thought wildly of the possibility that a bomb might be fastened to the starter mechanism. He dismissed that as fantastic. No one would have had a chance to do a job like that in broad daylight.

But someone had dropped a folded sheet of paper on the front seat alongside the open window. Bishop got in at once and read the message he found. He turned in the seat, so that the note was screened from the view of the people who passed by.

The message was crudely printed with a lead pencil:

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