The Red Paste Murders (Musaicum Vintage Mysteries)
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Arthur Gask. The Red Paste Murders (Musaicum Vintage Mysteries)
The Red Paste Murders (Musaicum Vintage Mysteries)
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I.—A CITY OF FEAR
CHAPTER II.—MY EARLY DAYS
CHAPTER III.—THE POT OF RED PASTE
CHAPTER IV.—THE FIRST CRIME
CHAPTER V.—THE DEATH OF POLICEMAN HOLTHUSEN
CHAPTER VI.—THE ROUSING OF THE CITY
CHAPTER VII.—AT THE RACES
CHAPTER VIII.—SPECIAL CONSTABLE PETER WACKS
CHAPTER IX.—THE GRAVEL PIT
CHAPTER X.—THE LAST CRIME OF WACKS
CHAPTER XI.—THE DAY AFTER
CHAPTER XII.—I AM SUSPECTED
CHAPTER XIII.—THE NEW MURDERER
CHAPTER XIV.—IN THE HOSPITAL
CHAPTER XV.—OUR WEDDING
CHAPTER XVI.—A GREAT EVANGELIST
CHAPTER XVII.—SIX YEARS AFTER
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"On Saturday night Mathew Crane, a tram conductor on duty, was struck on the head when actually not five yards away from his tram, just as he was altering the tram time-indicator at the terminus opposite Kensington Gardens. He died an hour later in the Adelaide Hospital.
"Sunday brought a double crime—the killing of Mr. and Mrs. Van Dene, in their own drawing-room in Medindie. It is very difficult to write calmly here. Those whose duty it was to visit the scene of the crime described it as being as terrible in its surroundings as anything the mind of anyone could conceive. For the first time the assassin had been interrupted in his ghastly work, and Mr. Van Dene had put up a gallant fight. But we cannot further harrow the feelings of our readers—the dreadful facts were detailed in our columns yesterday.
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