Detective and mystery stories
Arthur Hudson, who had been busily writing at his desk in his solidly-furnished office in Cheapside, looked up, a slight expression of annoyance on his handsome clear-cut features. The clerk who had thus addressed him, a slight, middle-aged man of fifty, with a bald head, and...
Arthur Hudson, who had been busily writing at his desk in his solidly-furnished office in Cheapside, looked up, a slight expression of annoyance on his handsome clear-cut featur...
2. CHAPTER II.By many readers of the present narrative, of course, the name of Russell Langford must still be regarded with a large amount of respect and gratitude. For some years, it is true...
3. CHAPTER III.At first, it is true, the lawyer had made a very stout fight with Ventris Blake, declaring that no power on earth would compel him to make himself so ridiculous in the eyes of h...
4. CHAPTER IV.Just, however, as Vera was starting to her feet to read the telegram for which she had dared so much, the door of the study was opened with great swiftness but stealth.
5. CHAPTER V.To be told in a most solemn fashion that you are married when you know you are single is a fate more often the subject of jest than of experience in real life. To be brought fac...
6. CHAPTER VI.Not until the two friends were rumbling along in a first-class carriage on the underground railway, bound for South Kensington station, did Paul Renishaw say a word about his ex...
7. CHAPTER VII.Unfortunately life does not stand still for any one of us; and since she had left Arthur’s office, poor Winifred Pontifex had been carried through a maze of bewildering incident...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Left alone in a police-station cell the night but one following his arrest, Arthur Hudson fell a victim to the most profound dejection. It was all very well to keep up a brave f...
9. CHAPTER IX.Unfortunately, before Arthur could confide to Paul any further particulars about the deadly vendetta which Duncan Kilroy’s brother had sworn against him, years ago, when both of...
10. CHAPTER X.It was then that both Paul and Winifred recognised that, if ever they were to learn the secret of the Three Glass Eyes, that was the psychological moment. Everything, indeed, wa...
11. CHAPTER XI.There was something intolerably strained and anxious in the looks of Ventris Blake as he sat that night in his study in Park Lane. As a matter of fact, he had only just left tha...
12. CHAPTER XII.Unfortunately, before Paul and the solicitor could come quite face to face with the redoubtable Silas Q. Pinkerton of New York, the great detective (who wore glasses and really...
13. CHAPTER XIII.For a time, however, we must leave Paul hard at work on his investigations in that tiny hamlet outside Scarborough. True, important results are to follow his labours, although t...
14. CHAPTER XIV.At first there seemed nothing out of the common to attract his attention. From right to left his quick glance wandered, noting a thousand things that would escape the ordinary p...
15. CHAPTER XV.Again there was silence in that rustic arbour, broken only by the sighing of the wind amidst the trees and the soft splash of the waves as they rolled against the cliffs of clay...
16. CHAPTER XVI.Winifred never forgot those terrible moments she spent in Ventris Blake’s study in Park Lane. It was not so much the shame of being caught like a common thief with her arm bared...
17. CHAPTER XVII.To pretend that Paul Renishaw and the sham detective, Josiah Sawdry, were not tremendously excited by the prospect of their visit to Scalby would be both useless and foolish. Na...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.Rebecca Charlton finished her strange story with a sigh; and for a few moments that oddly-assorted trio sat in the cellar of that deserted house at Scalby without exchanging a w...
19. CHAPTER XIX.Very full of stress and excitement were the days that followed this tragic end of the Vicar of St. Sepulchre’s and of Ventris Blake the millionaire. The British police, being Br...