Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
The sun had been up for the best part of an hour; the golden haze in the East was slowly melting away; the sluggish tide of bullock trucks had fairly set in along the Via Sacra; and a faint, universal stir of awakening life was to be felt rather than heard in the pleasant morn...
A week had not gone by when I received a letter from the Secretary of the East Anglian Railway Company, requesting the favour of my attendance at a special board meeting, not th...
15. CHAPTER VII.The court-house was crowded in every part. The judge in gloomy state, the robed lawyers, the busy _avocats_, the imperious ushers--all were there. It was a dark, wintry day. The...
1. CHAPTER I.The sun had been up for the best part of an hour; the golden haze in the East was slowly melting away; the sluggish tide of bullock trucks had fairly set in along the Via Sacra;...
5. CHAPTER I.The events which I am about to relate took place between nine and ten years ago. Sebastopol had fallen in the early Spring; the peace of Paris had been concluded since March; ou...
9. CHAPTER II.The Baron de Pradines, late of the Royal Musketeers and now captain in the Auvergne Dragoons, was small and fair, like his sister, and about thirty-five years of age. He looked,...
8. CHAPTER I.It was a sultry day in the month of August, A.D. 1710. The place was wild and solitary enough--a narrow ledge of rock jutting out from a precipitous mountain-side in the departm...
12. CHAPTER V.Two months quickly passed away in the Château de Peyrelade, during which the Chevalier de Fontane had recovered from his accident, and the Countess from her melancholy. Preparat...
3. CHAPTER III.A knot of loungers stood, talking eagerly, round the stove in Piale's reading-room. It was on the Monday morning following the first Sunday in Advent, and still quite early. Non...
10. CHAPTER III.André Bernard, Curé of the parish of St. Saturnin, was sitting in the little parlour which served him for breakfast-room, dining-room, and study. He had just said mass in the ti...
6. CHAPTER II.John Dwerrihouse had absconded three months ago--and I had seen him only a few hours back. John Dwerrihouse had embezzled seventy-five thousand pounds of the Company's money--ye...
16. CHAPTER VIII.It is night. The air is cold and biting; the stars are bright in the clear sky; and the moon is slowly sinking behind the Cathedral of St. Flour. Snow lies on the ground and on...
4. CHAPTER IV.Vast, sombre, dimly lighted, splendid with precious marbles and rich in famous altar-pieces, the church of Il Gesù wore that day an aspect of even gloomier grandeur than usual....
2. CHAPTER II.It was the most mysterious crime that had been committed in Rome since the famous murder in the Coliseum about seven years before. The whole city rang with it. Even the wretched...
11. CHAPTER IV.André Bernard arrived at the Château de Peyrelade like a man walking in his sleep. He found that he had been ushered into the Countess's boudoir, and that he was sitting there a...
13. CHAPTER VI.When misfortune falls upon a house in the midst of feasting and revelry, the guests, of late so friendly and familiar, shun the presence of their entertainers as if there were c...
14. civil. Before daybreak on the following morning the gloomyprocession--including the Countess, two of her women-servants, the Chevalier de Fontane, Father Jacques, and his assistants--set off for St. Flour. The body of the murdered offi...