Detective and mystery stories, English
In offering a series of stories which continue the adventures of a group of characters already introduced to the reading public, a writer is inevitably at a certain disadvantage. In contriving their first appearance he has been able to select both the occasion and the moment w...
In offering a series of stories which continue the adventures of a group of characters already introduced to the reading public, a writer is inevitably at a certain disadvantage...
2. Part 2His extensive journeyings and his coach work had made the blind man familiar, in a very special way, with the roads and the land between them, and in 1765, at the age of forty-e...
3. Part 3“Two hundred and twenty-five? Yes, I suppose so. Five hundred, less two twenty-five plus one leaves two hundred and seventy-four guineas to the good. You shall certainly pay for...
4. Part 4“No doubt I could easily procure one. Let me tell you the circumstances, Mr Carrados. I only want to convince you that I have nothing to conceal.” With this laudable intention M...
5. Part 5“Oh yes; very nice house and good position--Mrs Severe, that is to say. You will remember that she obtained a divorce from her husband four or five years ago. I’ve turned up the...
6. Part 6“That is for you to satisfy yourself. Dr Ellerslie is a widower with no children. Marie Severe was drugged by phronolal on some flowers which she was given. Phronolal is a new a...
7. Part 7Beedel looked at his friend and then at Dr Ellerslie. With unconscious habit he even noticed the proportions of the room, the position of the door and window, and the chief arti...
8. Part 8“The staircase with which we are concerned goes up from the dining hall. A much finer, more modern way ascends from the entrance hall. This earlier one, however, only gives acce...
9. Part 9“Well, do you know, I never thought of that,” admitted the doctor. “Certainly that would give us the alarm if a feather brushed it. But we don’t possess a chemist’s shop, and I...
10. Part 10“Max Carrados!” exclaimed her uncle in astonishment. “You don’t say so. Why, bless my soul, Elsie, I’d almost forgotten that you knew him. It seems years ago----What on earth is...
11. Part 11“Yes,” he conceded. “There is a good deal about the whole business that is still a mystery to me. The man came in shortly after I had lit up and nodded familiarly as he said: ‘G...
12. Part 12“That is all right,” said the blind man reassuringly. “Nervous witnesses very often answer at random at first. You have nothing to be afraid of, my good girl, if you will tell t...
13. Part 13“Yes,” assented his friend, “that is the story, and, upon my soul, in the circumstances--well, you shall hear it. It comes partly from the newspapers of many years ago, but only...
14. Part 14“Keep trying; something must give,” said his master encouragingly. “Here, let me----” He threw his weight into the balance and for a moment they hung like a group poised before...
15. Part 15“‘I am informed that the programme is correct,’ he said with the same smooth insincerity, standing in the middle of the room for me to leave. ‘Miss Roscastle is on the stage at...
16. Part 16“It might be addressed to the coroner, or to anyone who tries to find out who he is or what it means, you would say. Well, so it might, sir. Anyhow, that is all.”
17. Part 17“So I am given to understand. Doubtless it would not be sound business, sir, but I think that if the title had been a little worse, and the appearance of the grounds a little be...
18. Part 18“In spades. Quint major in spades also, tierce to the knave in clubs, fourteen aces”--_i.e._ four aces; “fourteen” in the language of piquet as they score that number. He did no...
19. Part 19The noise of wheel and connecting-rod cut off the chance of a reply, even if anyone had been prepared to make one. But no one, in that bewildering moment, was.
20. Part 20“On Wednesday last, after taking Evensong at the church, I was leaving the vestry when a lady stepped forward and asked if she might speak to me privately. It is a request which...
21. Part 21“We will try to find it for you; but there is nothing beyond your suspicion that this gentleman has ever seen it. Probably, sir, you don’t possess a sovereign postal order, or a...
22. Part 22“I hadn’t wanted the thing before, but that settled me. I very much doubted how the conjurer had got possession of it and I had no wish to be mixed up in an affair of any sort....
23. Part 23“He hasn’t yet,” volunteered his master. “But we both expect to. Yes, send him in here. Only one mistake the more, you see,” he added to his servant. “And one the less,” he adde...