Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
I AN UNCONSCIOUS INTRUDER 9 II MURDER 36 III AUTOPSY FINDINGS 67 IV THE FIRST DOLL 109 V A BRAVE NURSE 133 VI THE SECOND DOLL 163 VII THE NEW PATIENT IN BED ELEVEN 197 VIII THE CONTROL 231 IX THE THIRD DOLL 259 X THE CUPOLA 292
Miss Kexter vanished behind the curtains and Miss Kerr stood stiffly looking out of the window, and Miss Standish placed her suitcase upon the assigned bed and prepared to open...
11. Part 11“If Miss Parkins goes on the ward in a routine way as a patient, she will automatically be suspected by them and therefore become less valuable to us. But if she falls upon the...
12. Part 12He turned down Beeker Street and made his way over to Wilson Boulevard, one end of which was façaded by the Elijah Wilson group; the other was bounded by the River. He looked ba...
13. Part 13“You brought me here to find the criminal. In many things we shall have to fight each other. Mainly because all evidence points to a crazy doctor and you cannot accept the evide...
8. Part 8When this was all over, how many real friends she would have gained. But she mustn’t forget that she was here for a purpose. Perhaps if she took a short nap now, she would be in...
14. Part 14The deep singing was like a walking cane as she started across the room for the door. She pulled the knob, hesitantly, ascertained the student nurse was out of sight, and gather...
15. Part 15“Oh, it’s you!” Emma’s voice was pleased and birdlike. “They don’t drop, Miss Ferguson. Mr. Bucks told me you was on vacation. Did you have a nice time, dearie?” She reached tow...
10. Part 10“Hell, no!” Harrison snorted. “Bear Sterling is the best friend I ever had. He dragged me out of the gutter and made a doctor of me. Either his son is cleared, or I’ll not be ca...
5. Part 5“That Dr. Heddis believes it was done ... hypodermically. He suspected coniine and called me twenty minutes ago, and as a result all of the medicine closets in Medicine Clinic h...
6. Part 6“No woman can talk to that many men about nothing for half an hour. You fail to realize Evelina that everything you have you owe to me. Your training, your education, your cloth...
2. Part 2Then he gripped the bedside table and stared. Among the pillows, eyes wide with amusement, a wispy smile tracing the pale lips, was the head he had held in his hands three hours...
3. Part 3“It doesn’t do any good to lie to a person without relatives. I report murder trials, you know ... and I have a hellish imagination. No truth is as bad as imagination!”
9. Part 9It had left them a little shaky ... but now that Dr. MacArthur was beginning to speak, Prissy nodded to Princeton who tiptoed to the door and closed it. They felt they had been...
4. Part 4“Dr. Heddis is flying back. He should be here within two hours. Sorry to have called you at such an hour. Please keep on searching and consult Dr. Heddis immediately he returns....
1. Part 1I AN UNCONSCIOUS INTRUDER 9 II MURDER 36 III AUTOPSY FINDINGS 67 IV THE FIRST DOLL 109 V A BRAVE NURSE 133 VI THE SECOND DOLL 163 VII THE NEW PATIENT IN BED ELEVEN 197 VIII THE...
16. Part 16“When she reached it, her great love had grown, through endless pain and privation, to a great bitterness. She determined to reveal the Great Dr. Sterling and ruin him, and by m...