THE STURGIS WAGER (a classic 1899 DETECTIVE romance NOVEL)
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (895 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B003CFB4BY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 337 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The keen December wind swept down the crowded thoroughfare, nipping the noses and ears of the gay pedestrians, comfortably muffled in their warm wraps.Broadway was thronged with the usual holiday shoppers and pleasure-seekers. A wizened hag, seated on the curbstone at the corner, seemed to shrink into herself with the cold as she turned the crank of her tiny barrel-organ and ground out a dismal and scarcely audible cacophony; while an anxious-eyed newsboy, not yet in his teens, shivered on the opposite side of the way, as, with tremulous lips, he solicited a purchaser of his unsold stock. Facts, my dear boy, are like words. A word is only an assemblage of meaningless letters until it becomes pregnant with sense by context. "Fu Manchu""I simply note the fact, that, so far as time is concerned, the Cab Mystery could be the sequel to the Knickerbocker Bank Mystery—that is all. One could hardly be expected to open a warm overcoat on such a night, at the risk of taking cold, for the sake of throwing a cent to an old beggar woman, or of buying a newspaper from a ragged urchin. Murdock to solve a baffling mystery of his choosing and thus disprove his contention that a hidden "master" criminal can easily baffle the so-called "master" detective of the popular press.The case involves "shots" heard fired at a Wall Street bank after closing, but no evidence of who fired them or at what, but soon murder piles upon murder,
A true classic Sandy Such a well written book I loved it