Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
Neatly folded and stowed away in one of his inside pockets was a note, which he had received by a messenger on the forenoon of that day. The note, written on a typewriter, was not signed, and ran as follows:
Neatly folded and stowed away in one of his inside pockets was a note, which he had received by a messenger on the forenoon of that day. The note, written on a typewriter, was n...
2. CHAPTER II.Then he requested Brown to send the crowd on the outside about their business, and again cautioned McCarthy to let no one of those in the large office go out.
3. CHAPTER III.“In order to get down to the facts in this case,” began Nick, addressing the young man, “it will be necessary to apply for information to those who are supposed to be in possess...
4. CHAPTER IV.“Why, this: I am a detective; this is the coroner; you are a lawyer. This is not an inquest, nor yet a preliminary hearing; you are not under oath. There may be circumstances ab...
5. CHAPTER V.Jack Marston labored under extreme terror in the presence of the dead girl--so much so that Nick spent five minutes getting the lad’s mind in condition to answer questions coher...
6. CHAPTER VI.“No, sir; but somebody came up about five minutes after he went down, for I heard the man’s steps. I was busy in an office two floors below, however, and didn’t look out to see...
7. CHAPTER VII.When he finally ended the details with an account of his visit to the elevator boy he threw himself back in his chair and gave Chick a look which meant:
8. CHAPTER VIII.He did not go to the Borden Building this time, but to that one across the street, in which was the office out of whose window he was convinced the strange woman had seen the tr...
9. CHAPTER IX.When Mrs. Lock had once more regained consciousness, Nick gave her a stimulant, and let her have plenty of time to come into full possession of her reasoning faculties before he...
10. CHAPTER X.She had visited the dead girl’s boarding-place in Harlem, where she learned that Estelle was in the habit of spending the night elsewhere, occasionally at the house of an aunt s...