The Alibi - Couverture souple

England, George Allan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0809500914 ISBN 13 : 9780809500918

Editeur : Wildside Press, 2004

Synopsis

George Allan England (1877-1936) was an explorer and author of, inter alia, five science fiction novels and over a dozen magazine serials and short stories from 1905 on; these appeared predominantly in Frank A. Munsey's magazines, where he was one of the more popular writers of the pre-1926 period, ranking as the closest rival in science fiction to Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Alibi first appeared as an All-Story Weekly serial and was subsequently adapted as a silent film. In it, a young bank employee, falsely convicted of embezzlement, spends two years in Sing Sing before being cleared.

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Lashed by fear, hounded by fate, up and down the room he turned, hemmed by walls of disaster. His feet, now impacting on the polished floor, now noiseless over the rugs, kept time to the mechanical repetition of the thought: Ruin, ruin, ruin! that ebbed and flowed in his racked brain. Haggard and wan he paced with rumpled hair and eyes whose bloodshot glance bespoke long vigils. Save for his footfall and the busy impertinence of the clock that would soon toll midnight, the house the house of Walter Haynes Slayton, cashier, was still. A numbing silence gfripped it a silence that could almost be heard, so deep it was. Outside, hardly a sound disturbed the frosty November night, now moonlit, now cloudy, that brooded over the suburban solitude of Oakwood Heights. Stillness without, silence within. The night seemed waiting, big with woe. Yet through all the mans stress and torment passed a flicker of relief that his wife had not yet returned. In view of the approaching disaster, her absence on a visit was a signal blessing. His one wish now was that she might remain away till something could be done to stem the tides of ruin.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wildside Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0809500914
• ISBN 13: 9780809500918
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 376
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible