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Edgar Wallace. Circumstantial Evidence and Other Stories
Circumstantial Evidence and Other Stories
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MYSTERY LIBRARY
THE WORLD SYNDICATE PUBLISHING CO. CLEVELAND, O.NEW YORK, N. Y
Copyright, 1934. by. THE WORLD SYNDICATE PUBLISHING CO
Circumstantial Evidence
Fighting Snub Reilly
A Romance in Brown
Discovering Rex
The Man in the Golf Hut
A Tryst with Ghosts
The Child of Chance
The Dear Liar
The Christmas Princess
Findings are Keepings
The Little Green Man. I
II
III
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Edgar Wallace
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Penderbury shook his head. Pulling up a chair at the other side of the table, he sat down, his arms folded, his grave eyes fixed on the younger man.
"Look at it from a lawyer's point of view, Freeder," he said gently. "Ella Grant is badly in need of money. She has backed a bill for a girl-friend and the money is suddenly demanded. A few minutes after learning this from Isaacs' clerk, she finds a letter in her flat, which she has obviously read—the envelope was opened and its contents extracted—a letter which is from Colonel Dane's lawyers, telling her that the colonel has made her his sole heiress. She knows, therefore, that the moment the colonel dies she will be a rich woman. She has in her handbag a bottle containing cyanide of potassium, and that night, under the cover of darkness, drives to the colonel's house and is seen outside the library window by Colonel Dane's gamekeeper. She admitted, when she was questioned by the detective, that she knew the colonel was in the habit of sitting by the window and that he usually put his glass of port on the window-ledge. What was easier than to drop a fatal dose of cyanide into the wine? Remember, she admitted that she had hated him and that once she threw a knife at him, wounding him, so that the scar remained to the day of his death. She admitted herself that it was his practice to put the wine where she could have reached it."
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