The Shadow 058 Chain of Death by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant [Grant, Maxwell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-07-01T04:00:00+00:00

"We'll go down there," asserted Klein, "as soon as I post men to stay on watch." Clyde Burke was a member of the group that descended to the twenty-third floor. In a spacious suite, he saw the guests who had been driven from their rooms. There were not more than half a dozen.

The hotel manager was with them. He arose protestingly as Klein and Cardona entered.

"Gentlemen," he announced to the officials, "I can vouch for every one of these guests. It is preposterous to suppose that any could be the culprit for whom you are searching." Cardona nodded as he eyed the group. Most of the guests were half clad. They had been aroused by the excitement. None of them answered the descriptions given by those who had seen Garwald. The ace, however, insisted upon the formality of an identification. He questioned the two operators and the house detective, as well as the policeman. All four were positive that none of these guests could have been the fully-clad murderer who had loosed shots during his mad flight. The test was convincing. Cardona, himself, saw that these people must be innocent. Of all the half dozen, Professor Langwood Devine impressed him as being the one who was least suspicious.

The hobbling old man, with his bushy white hair, could not possibly have been the active murderer in the penthouse. The other guests seemed nearly as innocuous as Devine

"Here's what I suggest, inspector," decided Cardona. No elevators are running to the twenty-fourth floor. The stairway is blocked. Let these people go to other rooms, below. In the morning, we can have their belongings brought down to them. In the meantime, we'll make another search. We'll go through every spot on the two floors above; and we'll do it so clean that even a rat won't escape us." The inspector nodded his agreement. Cardona strolled from the room with Clyde Burke in his wake. Growling, the detective swung and faced the reporter.

"Listen, you with the tin medal," asserted the sleuth, "I'll give you the details of this case.

Then you can beat it and write your story. You're out so far as this search is concerned."

"But suppose you find the guy-"

"You'll hear about it."

"How soon?"

"Call me on the telephone. Give your name; ask to be connected with the penthouse. But don't bother me more than once an hour. Is that understood? All right; get out your pencil and copy paper and take down the details."

Fifteen minutes later, Clyde Burke appeared upon the street outside of the Hotel Salamanca. He strolled to a store a block away. He put in a telephone call to Burbank.

Methodically, Clyde gave all the details of the double murder in the Salamanca penthouse.

In addition, he listed the names of the guests who had been cleared and dismissed. He added the numbers of their rooms. That finished, Clyde Burke left the phone booth and headed for the Classic office.

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