Grant, Maxwell - The Shadow 319 - Murder on Main Street 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

Time passed slowly. The sheriff said, “If my men are ever going to find anything, they should soon.” He paused, looked back at the chess board that they were both bent over, and said, “Anyway you’re in a jam. Look at your knight.”

“I am?” Cranston smiled. He moved his queen. “Check.”

“Oh, brother! This thing must have me more upset than I thought.” The sheriff looked up eagerly. One of his deputies came in holding an expensive looking rifle in his hands.

It was cracked across the butt. The ‘scope’ on the barrel was bent. Again, the sheriff thought, no sane man would do that, not to a lovely rifle.

He took it from the man. Cranston reached in his pocket and took out the string he had found in Jason’s cot. There was a black smudge on the center of the string. One end of the string was tied in a small loop.

Cranston said, “There is an old Parisian Apache trick that was resurrected during the war by the Underground. Let me demonstrate with a smaller gun. May I borrow your pistol?” he asked the deputy.

The sheriff scowled with concentration. He didn’t get this at all.

Apaches? Underground? A piece of string? It didn’t hang together. But it did when Cranston demonstrated.

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