The Maelstrom (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Frank Froest

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331484650 ISBN 13 : 9781331484653

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Maelstrom

Then it was that he noticed an electric switch and pulled it over. A rush of light ?ooded the room and he tottered to one of the Jacobean armchairs at the head of the table. The sledge-hammer was still swing ing at his temples and things swayed dizzily to and fro before his eyes. He made a resolute effort to pull himself together. His eyes roved over the room, and he noticed a pedestal telephone on a small table in the corner furthest. From him.

What was the name of the chap Pinkerton gave me an introduction to, he muttered, and drawing a bundle of papers from his breast pocket, sorted them till the envelope he needed lay at the top.
Chief Detective Inspector Weir Menzies, New Scotland Yard, S. W.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Haixett blundered into an unlit lamp-post, swore with fervour, and stood for a second peering for some identifiable landmark in the black blanket of fog that muffled the street. Where he stood, a sluggish dense drift had collected for following the treacherous habit of London fogs, it lay in patches. A bout him he could hear ghostly noises of traffic muffled and as from afar, but whether the sounds came from before or behind, from right or left, was more than his bewildered senses could fathom. For the last ten minutes he had been walking in a spectral city among spectres. A by-street had trapped him and no single wayfarer had come within his limited area of sight. He lifted his hat and rubbed his head perplexedly as he came to the conclusion that he was lost. It was as though London had set out to teach the young man from New York a lesson. The fog had him beat. Guess I shall fetch somewhere, sometime, he muttered and strode doggedly on. He had gone perhaps a dozen yards when from ahead a quick burst of angry voices broke out. Then there came a running of feet on the sodden pavement. Hallett came to a stop, listening. The fog seemed to thin a trifle.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331484650
• ISBN 13: 9781331484653
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 374
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