(The Original) Round the Fire Stories
Book Description
THE MAN WITH THE WATCHES
THE BLACK DOCTOR
THE JEW'S BREASTPLATE
THE LOST SPECIAL
THE CLUB-FOOTED GROCER
THE SEALED ROOM
THE BRAZILIAN CAT
Excerpt:
THE MAN WITH THE WATCHES
THERE are many who will still bear in mind the singular circumstances which, under the heading of the Rugby Mystery, filled many columns of the daily Press in the spring of the year...
MoreTHE MAN WITH THE WATCHES
THE BLACK DOCTOR
THE JEW'S BREASTPLATE
THE LOST SPECIAL
THE CLUB-FOOTED GROCER
THE SEALED ROOM
THE BRAZILIAN CAT
Excerpt:
THE MAN WITH THE WATCHES
THERE are many who will still bear in mind the singular circumstances which, under the heading of the Rugby Mystery, filled many columns of the daily Press in the spring of the year 1892. Coming as it did at a period of exceptional dulness, it attracted perhaps rather more attention than it deserved, but it offered to the public that mixture of the whimsical and the tragic which is most stimulating to the popular imagination.
Interest drooped, however, when, after weeks of fruitless investigation, it was found that no final explanation of the facts was forthcoming, and the tragedy seemed from that time to the present to have finally taken its place in the dark catalogue of inexplicable and unexplained crimes. A recent communication (the authenticity of which appears to be above question) has, however, thrown some new and clear light upon the matter.
Before laying it before the public it would be as well, perhaps, that I should refresh their memories as to the singular facts upon which this commentary is founded. These facts were briefly as follows:--
At five o'clock on the evening of the 18th of March in the year already mentioned a train left Euston Station for Manchester. It was a rainy, squally day, which grew wilder as it progressed, so it was by no means the weather in which any one would travel who was not driven to do so by necessity. The train, however, is a favourite one among Manchester business men who are returning from town, for it does the journey in four hours and twenty minutes, with only three stoppages upon the way. In spite of the inclement evening it was, therefore, fairly well filled upon the occasion of which I speak. The guard of the train was a tried servant of the company--a man who had worked for twenty-two years without blemish or complaint. His name was John Palmer.
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(The Original) Danger! And Other Stories (1918)
(The Original) Mysteries and Adventures (1889)
(The Original) Playing With Fire
(The Original) Round the Fire Stories (This Book)
(The Original) Tales of Adventure and Medical Life
(The Original) Tales of Pirates and Blue Water
(The Original) Tales of Terror and Mystery
(The Original) Tales of the Ring and the Camp
(The Original) Tales of Twilight and the Unseen
(The Original) The Brown Hand
(The Original) The Bully of Brocas Court
(The Original) The Debatable Case of Mrs. Emsley
(The Original) The Edge of the Unknown
(The Original) The Great Brown-Pericord Motor
(The Original) The History of Spiritualism Vol I (1926)
(The Original) The History of Spiritualism Vol II (1926)
(The Original) The Holocaust of Manor Place
(The Original) The Love Affair of George Vincent Parker
(The Original) The Maracot Deep (1929)
(The Original) The Parish Magazine
(The Original) The Professor Challenger Series
Publisher | ADB Publishing |
Binding | Kindle Edition (36 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized
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# of Pages | N/A |
ISBN-10 | B00466HJZS |
Publication Date | 10/05/2010 |
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