Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

The astounding crime on Torrington Road

Partner Stephen W. Harker, with a side light thrown on the Business Methods employed by this firm. Also defining the Steps which led Mr. Pentecost to call at the House on Torrington Road. _Page 20_

Chapters

1. PART I: Leading up to the arrangement that

2. PART II: Introducing Hugo Pentecost and his

Partner Stephen W. Harker, with a side light thrown on the Business Methods employed by this firm. Also defining the Steps which led Mr. Pentecost to call at the House on Torrin...

3. PART III: Dealing with old Michael Cripps and

4. PART IV: Attempting to convey Some Idea of

5. PART V: Wherein is set forth the Painful Predicament

6. PART VI: Touching on the Amazing Preparations

for and the Hideous Details of the Crime that took place in the Cripps Mansion and Describing the Activities of the Police in connection therewith as well as the Behavior of Oth...

7. PART VII: Giving an account of the Attempts

8. PART I

_At the request of Mr. Andrew H. Barnes I make the following statement in order to explain how it came about that I entered into the arrangement for taking down from his dictati...

9. PART II

_The following Account of a Series of Occurrences in the Jamaica Plain District of Boston during the year 1920, and Certain Facts Relating Thereto, was dictated by Mr. Andrew H....

10. PART III

Most people who knew the house supposed that Michael Sutherland Cripps was the builder as well as the owner and occupant of the Cripps Mansion, as it was called, in the district...

11. PART IV

One late April afternoon—a chilly dismal day it had been, with a drizzle of rain—the maid knocked at his workroom door, and when he’d shut down the power on the drill he was usi...

12. PART V

Most of the time he was sitting somewhere in the house—he didn’t notice where—staring before him with wide open eyes that saw nothing. Hulda brought him “just a taste” of this o...

13. PART VI

When Stephen W. Harker of Harker & Pentecost returned from Pittsburgh, where he’d been “planting” for a nice little Gasoline Substitute Swindle (stock selling, of course—that wa...

14. PART VII

You can readily understand that the daily papers, both morning and evening, were going strong on this murder, giving the public all the sensational stuff they could rake out of...