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James Hay
MYSTERY & CRIME COLLECTION: The Winning Clue, Mrs. Marden's Ordeal, No Clue & The Man Who Forgot
(Detective Novels)
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[email protected] 2017 OK Publishing ISBN 978-80-7583-230-6
Table of Contents
THE WINNING CLUE
VII. Miss Fulton Is Hysterical
XII. The Man With the Gold Tooth
XIV. The Pawn Broker Takes the Trail
XVI. A Message From Miss Fulton
XVII. Miss Fulton’s Revelation
XVIII. What’s Braceway’s Game?
XIX. At the Anderson National Bank
XX. The Discovery of the Jewels
XXIV. Miss Fulton Writes a Letter
TO GRAHAM B. NICHOL
AS A LITTLE TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION AND AFFECTION
Chapter I.
Strangled
When a woman's voice, pitched to the high note of utter terror, rang out on the late morning quiet of Manniston Road, Lawrence Bristow looked up from his newspaper quickly but vaguely, as if he doubted his own ears. He was reading an account of a murder committed in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and the shrieks he had just heard fitted in so well with the paragraph then before his eyes that his imagination might have been playing him tricks. He was allowed, however, little time for speculation or doubt.
"Murder! Help!" cried the woman in a staccato sharpness that carried the length of many blocks.
Bristow sprang to his feet and started down the short flight of stairs leading from his porch to the street. Before he had taken three steps, he saw the frightened girl standing on the porch of No. 5, two doors to his left. Although he was lame, he displayed surprising agility. His left leg, two inches
