Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
ONE of the morning trains that tap the little towns along the Sound ran into the Grand Central Depot. It was very hot in the lower levels of the station and the passengers, few in number--for it was midsummer and people were going out of town, not coming in--filed stragglingly...
ONE of the morning trains that tap the little towns along the Sound ran into the Grand Central Depot. It was very hot in the lower levels of the station and the passengers, few...
2. Part 2The fleet of boats, rocking gently on the narrow channel that separated Gull Island from the mainland, took on their freight and darted off. They started in groups then broke ap...
3. Part 3A door to the right opened into the entrance hall. Here he and his wife occupied a ground-floor room. It was on the garden front of the house opposite the stairway that led to t...
4. Part 4If the conventional garb of the street was not as becoming to his darkly Byronic style as the trappings of the Duke, he was still unusually handsome. A figure of distinction in...
5. Part 5She sank back and closed her eyes. Her husband bent a somber, sidewise look toward her, then laid his hand on one of hers. Her own turned and the thin fingers twined like clingi...
6. Part 6If Joe had done it and if he was on the island he would try to get off at low tide. It was safe to assume that he was outside, hidden till the causeway was open. To go out to fi...
7. Part 7The summer-house, a small, six-sided building, was covered by a thick growth of Virginia creeper that swathed its rustic shape. In four of its walls the vines, matted into a man...
8. Part 8She went on down the hall. Anne, on the stairs, waited till she heard the sound of the opening door and Miss Pinkney’s welcoming voice, then she stole upward very softly. She di...
9. Part 9“We needn’t do that just now. They’re as safe as if they were behind bars. There’s something I want to do down here first--have a talk with Miss Tracy. She may be able to give u...
10. Part 10It was a simple and practicable plan--a watch kept for the rest of the night on the stairs and certain points of exit. In the face of positive orders two people had come from th...
11. Part 11He described his state as curiously lucid and far-seeing. The insane outbreak seemed to have freed his intelligence and temporarily suspended the torment of his nerves. The situ...
12. Part 12“Yes, let me stay dead. Everybody believes it, let them go on believing. It _was_ death, my life since that night when Jim disappeared. It wasn’t worth going on with. Now I can...