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Edgar Wallace. The Tomb of Ts'in
The Tomb of Ts'in
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
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I. — CAPTAIN TED TALHAM
II. — THE MAN IN THE DRAWER
III. — INTRODUCES MR. SOO
IV. — THE AMULET OF JADE
V. — MR. SOHO MAKES A DISCOVERY
VI. — A CRIME OF TILLIZINNI
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VII. — AN AFTERNOON CALL
VIII. — THE CELESTIAL WAY
IX. — THE ABDUCTION
X. — THE ROOMS BY THE CANAL
XI. — CAPTAIN TALHAM'S PROGRESS
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XII. — THE MESSAGE OF THE DEAD
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XIII. — CAPTAIN TALHAM PROPOSES
XIV. — AND RECEIVES HIS ANSWER
XV. — SOO WHO CAME BACK
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XVI. — IN THE CITY OF HOO-SIN
XVII. — THE TOMB LOCATED
XVIII. — IN THE CAVERN OF THE DEAD
XIX. — THE YAMEN OF T'SI SOO
XX. — SOO "SAVES-FACE"
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THE END
Отрывок из книги
Edgar Wallace
Published by Good Press, 2021
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He curled his moustache thoughtfully. She noted with an odd feeling in which pleasure and annoyance were mixed, that he was very much "the old friend of the family." It was not exactly what he said, or the tone he adopted. It was an indefinable something which was neither patronage nor familiarity. It was Talham's way, as she was to discover, to come with pleasant violence into lives and be no more and no less in place than they who had won their positions in esteem and confidence through arduous years of service.
"Perhaps your mother's friends have given you something Chinese which these men want?" he suggested, and again saw the frown. Somehow he knew that it did not indicate hostility to, or annoyance with, himself.
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