Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
Within a week of Tom Bristow’s first visit to Pincote, and his introduction to the Copes, father and son, Mr. Cope, junior, found himself, much to his disgust, fairly on his way to New York. He would gladly have rebelled against the parental dictum in this matter, if he had da...
The man whom Tom Bristow had employed for the construction of the wardrobe which had proved of such essential service to Lionel Dering, was a cabinet-maker named Paul Wigley, wh...
9. CHAPTER IX.The month of October had half run its course, the Continental Meccas were nearly deserted, the pilgrims were returning in shoals day by day, and the London club-houses were no l...
12. CHAPTER XII.During the few months that elapsed between the murder of Percy Osmond and the arrival of General St. George in England, Park Newton had been shut up, Pearce, the old family butl...
1. CHAPTER I.Within a week of Tom Bristow’s first visit to Pincote, and his introduction to the Copes, father and son, Mr. Cope, junior, found himself, much to his disgust, fairly on his way...
13. CHAPTER XIII.What more thankless office is there than to be the bearer of ill news to those we love or regard? Not often in the course of his life had such a duty fallen to the lot of Tom Br...
3. CHAPTER III.“There goes ten of ’em. Old Hoskyns can never want me at this time of night. At all events, if he don’t come soon he won’t find me here. If a man can’t call the time his own aft...
2. CHAPTER II.There was a moment’s pause. A slight murmur passed like a ripple through the dense crowd. Each individual item, male and female, tried to wriggle itself into a more comfortable...
7. CHAPTER VII.General St. George’s departure from India had been accelerated by a slight attack of fever, which so far prostrated him that he was unable to write, or communicate in any way to...
4. CHAPTER IV.The escape of Lionel Dering from Duxley Gaol created an extraordinary sensation throughout the country. Government at once offered a reward of two hundred pounds, which, a week...
11. CHAPTER XI.Squire Culpepper, was laid up with an attack of his old enemy the gout. Thereby his temper was by no means improved. But to the ordinary pains which attend podagra was superadde...
5. CHAPTER V.When Lionel Dering found himself safe inside Alder Cottage, with his wife’s arms around his neck, the door locked behind him, and no sounds of pursuit in the distance, he broke...
10. CHAPTER X.General St. George’s health improved so rapidly that, contrary to his first intention, he decided that he would return to England at once and, if possible, get settled down some...
8. CHAPTER VIII.With the departure of Lionel Dering from Pincote in disguise, and the subsequent removal of Edith and Mrs. Garside to London, it would naturally have been thought that Mr. Tom B...