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Charles Kingston. Rogues and Adventuresses
Rogues and Adventuresses
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. LACENAIRE—POET AND MURDERER
CHAPTER II. CORA PEARL
CHAPTER III. THE CONVERTED MURDERER
CHAPTER IV. THE HISTORIC BARMAID
CHAPTER V. PRIEST AND MURDERER
CHAPTER VI. SOPHIE DAWES
CHAPTER VII. THE CULTURED CRIMINAL
CHAPTER VIII. DR. WEBSTER OF BOSTON
CHAPTER IX. A COLLECTOR OF HUSBANDS
CHAPTER X. INSPECTOR MONTGOMERY’S CRIME
CHAPTER XI. GRACE DALRYMPLE ELLIOTT
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Charles Kingston
Published by Good Press, 2021
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On the morning of December 31st Lacenaire’s programme was complete. Dressed in his best clothes he reclined on a sofa reading his favourite Rousseau. Behind the sofa was a sack half filled with straw which he intended to hold the body of the murdered bank-messenger, and in a corner of the room was a large trunk which was to be utilized to convey the corpse to a deserted villa in a distant suburb where it was to be destroyed in a furnace. In fact, Lacenaire planned to be the first of the “trunk-murderers,” and it was only an accident that deprived him of that “distinction.”
The stage was now fully set for the third murder, and Lacenaire, who had become so natural a poseur that he could see nothing fantastic in an attempt to impress François with a display of philosophic calm, was apparently engrossed in his book when there was a knock at the door, the signal for action, although the intended victim could not be expected to know that.
