Doc Savage Omnibus 3 by Kenneth Robeson & Lester Dent

Author:Kenneth Robeson & Lester Dent [Robeson, Kenneth & Dent, Lester]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Action & Adventure
ISBN: 9780553267389
Google: 7GE4AAAACAAJ
Amazon: 0553267388
Barnesnoble: 0553267388
Goodreads: 1198553
Publisher: Bantam Books (Mm)
Published: 1987-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

28

DOC SAVAGE

“Ezra Strong’s apartment. And be care-along. Doc took a long chance at a bluff.

ful. There are probably police in the Chief Flannigan and his men would not yet neighborhood, since the police are looking have had time to put out an alarm for Doc.

for Strong.”

Doc Savage walked in boldly. “Good Billy Riggs sighed. “Poor Ezra. I feel evening. Is Chief Flannigan here?”

badly about his getting involved in this mess.”

There were two policemen, and they Ham grunted skeptically. “He pushed were surprised.

his nose right into it himself, didn’t he? No-

“No, the chief isn’t here.”

body invited him.”

Doc looked surprised. “Do you mind if I

“But Ezra was just being friendly. And ask some questions before he comes? He is maybe amusing himself, too, because he very anxious to get this mystery solved.”

thought it was so funny.”

The bronze man’s matter-of-fact man-Doc Savage pointed out some facts in ner was confident enough to deceive the two a quiet tone. “Ezra Strong was too Johnny-officers.

on-the-spot when he appeared at the filling Doc asked, “Any trace of Ezra Strong station this morning when Monk, Ham and yet?”

Copeland came from the factory to talk to

“No. ”

you, Riggs. Apparently he followed the lim-

“I imagine you are covering the rail-ousines from the factory. And there was roads, bus stations, airport and highways?”

nothing innocent about the way he skipped

“That’s right.”

out tonight. Ezra Strong knows something

“I would suggest,” Doc said, “that you about this.”

check with Strong’s friends and acquaintan-Billy Riggs was doubtful. “Maybe he ces and find where he lived originally, where ran tonight because getting involved in a he has gone on his vacations the last few murder so innocently scared him.”

years, and any other localities with which he Monk took the car around a corner. “He is familiar. A clever man, when hiding out, will was scared, all right—but not by the murder.”

usually head for some locality he knows.”

“What do you mean?”

The policeman grinned. “By gosh, no-

“I was watching Strong,” Monk ex-body thought of that.”

plained. “When we encountered that spook—

“Did he take any clothing with him?”

or whatever it is—in Copeland’s yard was

“Yeah. We got his cleaning woman.

when Strong got scared.”

She says a suitcase, a tweed suit, some

“How did he act?” Doc was interested.

shirts, a pair of riding breeches and boots, a

“Before that, Strong thought it was as raincoat and his shaving stuff are missing.”

funny as a barrel of monkeys on Friday.

“That sounds like the country, possibly When we found the spook, he was suddenly a cabin. The spots where he has gone on as scared as could be.”

vacation, or a cabin out of town if he has one,

“Finding that thing would scare any-would be worth watching.”

body,” said Billy Riggs defensively.

“Sure.” The officer started away. “I’ll

“Not like it got Strong. We’d been tell-get our men on that now.”

ing him about the invisible, solid thing, and

“Wait, you can tell Chief Flannigan,”

he just laughed his head off. But when we Doc said. “He will probably have some even found it, he blew higher than a kite.”

better ideas.”

Monk stopped the car. “It’s only about

“O.

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