Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
CHAPTER PAGE I FOREWORD 9 II “DROPS THAT TRICKLE AWAY” 13 III THE ROYAL LOVE LETTER 38 IV A GAME OF BACCARAT 61 V THE MAN WITH THE GOLD TEETH 85 VI TWELVE LITTLE NIGGER BOYS 108 VII THE BRIDGE THAT BROKE 137 VIII THE FATAL MIRACLE 164 IX DOUBLE ENTRY 195 X ARRESTING ARSÈNE LUP...
CHAPTER PAGE I FOREWORD 9 II “DROPS THAT TRICKLE AWAY” 13 III THE ROYAL LOVE LETTER 38 IV A GAME OF BACCARAT 61 V THE MAN WITH THE GOLD TEETH 85 VI TWELVE LITTLE NIGGER BOYS 108...
2. Part 2His strength failed him again, and the servants lifted him onto his bed. The doctor came very soon after, and two elderly spinster cousins who had been summoned settled themselv...
3. Part 3“That means about twenty yards from the porch,” said the magistrate, pointing to the two steps leading up to the hall. “And from where you stood you saw——” He paused expectantly.
4. Part 4“I should be much more impressed with the gravity of the situation,” Barnett remarked with profound logic, “if I knew what it was all about. I came in answer to your wire and in...
5. Part 5“That’s so. But there’s been a misunderstanding. Actually, those last three deals only increased our losses. When Erstein left the table, Maxime, who seemed perfectly self-posse...
6. Part 6“Then I shall turn the case over to the police as I ought to have done in the beginning. If this man is not guilty, we have no right to detain him. I maintain that the burglar’s...
7. Part 7“Is Inspector Béchoux there? Then call him to the telephone—at once. Hurry ... hurry! I want him on business. There’s no time to lose.... Hello!... Inspector Béchoux? This is Ga...
8. Part 8“Will you promise never again to take up that chilly and reproachful attitude towards my harmless exploits, which almost convinces me at times that I must have wandered from the...
9. Part 9“And I have my own way of working. If you prefer it, I will pursue my course quite independently on behalf of Madame Lenormand, and you needn’t see me again until I, too, have m...
10. Part 10“That was a beautiful laboratory of the professor’s,” he said. “By the way, Béchoux, do you happen to know the address of the biggest dye concern in the country? I may be paying...
11. Part 11“Fancy that now!” he exclaimed. “Looking through the trees, one can see a section of the Old Dungeon—right across the park. Isn’t that the portion of the ruin which overlooks th...
12. Part 12A few minutes later the two men came to one of the quietest, most deserted streets near the Luxembourg. Olga Vaubant lived on the top floor of an old-fashioned house whose brick...
13. Part 13“I did,” Barnett told her. “Frankly, the idea is superb. It’s the highest form of art—a manifestation of creative genius, wholly original in conception and execution. While the...
14. Part 14This last point—the question of the first meeting of Desroques and the banker’s wife—remained one of the minor yet most baffling mysteries of the case, since Veraldy declared he...
15. Part 15“O most honorable, most respectable, most admirable baton! Symbol of civic and municipal authority! A short while ago, you were hanging at Constable Rimbourg’s belt. A little sl...