The Sleuth of St. James's Square

The Sleuth of St. James's Square PDF Author: Melville Davisson Post
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Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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The Sleuth of St. James's Square

The Sleuth of St. James's Square PDF Author: Melville Davisson Post
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Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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The Sleuth of St. James's Square

The Sleuth of St. James's Square PDF Author: Melville Post
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ISBN: 9781492287186
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Languages : en
Pages : 152

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A book of mystery and adventure, with winding narratives about unusual incidents, some with a twist at the end.

The Sleuth of St. James's Square

The Sleuth of St. James's Square PDF Author: Melville Davisson Post
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479452068
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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Once considered by many to be the greatest American mystery writer of all time, Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930) has begun to fall into undeserved obscurity in the near century since his death. The Sleuth of St. James’s Square, first published as a book in 1920, aptly demonstrates his strengths, and it makes a good place to start for anyone encountering Post’s work for the first time. This volumes includes 16 mystery stories, each connected—if sometimes tangentially—to Sir Henry Marquis, head of the Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard, who is called upon to solve some of the strangest and most puzzling cases in Britain. It starts with a locked-room mystery and ends in Scotland, at a house by a Loch where more is going on than meets the eye. A first-rate collection.

The Sleuth of St. James's Square

The Sleuth of St. James's Square PDF Author: Melville Davisson Post
Publisher: General Books
ISBN: 9781458936080
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III.The Lost Lady It was a remark of old Major Carrington that incited this adventure. "It is some distance through the woodis she quite safe?" It was a mere reflection as he went out. It was very late. I do not know how the dinner, or rather the after-hours of it, had lengthened. It must have been the incomparable charm of the woman. She had come, this night, luminously, it seemed to us, through the haze that had been on herthe smoke haze of a strange, blighting fortune. The three of us had been carried along in it with no sense of time; my sister, the ancient Major Carrington and I. He turned back in the road, his decayed voice whipped by the stimulus of her into a higher note: "Suppose the village coachman should think her as lovely as we dowhat!" He laughed and turned heavily up the road a hundred yards or so to his cottage set in the pine wood. I stood in the road watching the wheels of the absurd village vehicle, the yellow cut-under, disappear. The old Major called back to me; his voice seemed detached, eerie with the thin laugh in "I thought him a particularly villainous-looking creature!" It was an absurd remark. The man was one of the natives of the island, and besides, the innkeeper was a person of sound sense; he would know precisely about his driver. I should not have gone on this adventure but for a further incident. When I entered the house my sister was going up the stair, the butler was beyond in the drawing- room, and there was no other servant visible. She was on the first step and the elevation gave precisely the height that my sister ought to have received in the accident of birth. She would have been wonderful with those four inches added lacking beauty, she had every other grace. She spoke to me as I approached. "Wint...

The Sleuth St. James's Square

The Sleuth St. James's Square PDF Author: Melville Davidson Post
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Languages : en
Pages : 337

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The Sleuth of St. James's Square

The Sleuth of St. James's Square PDF Author: Melville Davisson Post
Publisher: Independently Published
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Languages : en
Pages : 284

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A collection of 16 mystery short stories: The Thing on the Hearth, The Reward, The Lost Lady, The Cambered Foot, The Man in the Green Hat, The Wrong Sign, The Fortune Teller, The Hole in the Mahogany Panel, The End of the Road, The Last Adventure, American Horses, The Spread Rails, The Pumpkin Coach, The Yellow Flower, Satire of the Sea & The House by the Loch.We are happy to announce this classic book. Many of the books in our collection have not been published for decades and are therefore not broadly available to the readers. Our goal is to access the very large literary repository of general public books. The main contents of our entire classical books are the original works. To ensure high quality products, all the titles are chosen carefully by our staff. We hope you enjoy this classic

The Sleuth of St. James's Square

The Sleuth of St. James's Square PDF Author: Melville Davisson Post
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Languages : en
Pages : 179

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"The Sleuth of St. James's Square" is a collection of sixteen short mystery and crime stories written by Melville Davisson Post, a West Virginia author who gained international acclaim for his writing.

The Sleuth of St. James's Square

The Sleuth of St. James's Square PDF Author: Post Melville Davisson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781985580909
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Languages : en
Pages : 218

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"The Sleuth of St. James's Square" is a collection of sixteen short mystery and crime stories written by Melville Davisson Post, a West Virginia author who gained international acclaim for his writing. The tales included in this volume are: "The Thing on the Hearth," "The Reward," "The Lost Lady," "The Cambered Foot," "The Man in the Green Hat," "The Wrong Sign," "The Fortune Teller," "The Hole in the Mahogany Panel," "The End of the Road," "The Last Adventure," "American Horses," "The Spread Rails," "The Pumpkin Coast," "The Yellow Flower," "A Satire of the Sea," and The House by the Loch."

The Sleuth of St. James's Square

The Sleuth of St. James's Square PDF Author: Melville Davisson Melville Davisson Post
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ISBN: 9781521952146
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Languages : en
Pages : 146

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How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Sleuth of St. James's Square by Melville Davisson Post The Sleuth of St. James's Square by Melville Davisson Post is a collection of mystery stories, each with a different protagonist and not related to each other in any way except that each are about some sort of mystery, rarely dealing with murder. The writing is very Victorian in style. The sleuth who lives in a large house in St. James's Square, London, is Sir Henry Marquis, head of the Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard. He also owns a country mansion and a villa on the French Riviera and internal evidence suggests he was educated at Rugby's famous public school and Oxford University. He previously ran the English secret service in the India-Burma border area and had also been busy in unspecified places in Asia, although there is reason to suppose he is familiar with Mongolia. Sir Henry belongs to the Empire Club in Piccadilly and apparently goes to the opera now and then.

The Sleuth of St. James's Square

The Sleuth of St. James's Square PDF Author: Melville Davisson Post
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387023596
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.