Things don't look good for Billy Kane when his millionaire employer David Ellsworth is found murdered and robbed. All evidences suggest that he is the one who did it, and those circumstances dictate that he must go in hiding. As Billy wonders further in New York's criminal underground, he gets mistaken for a notorious Buddy Morgan, known as The Rat, one of the bosses of the underworld. Seizing on the unlikely opportunity to clear his name Billy decides to pit the underworld in a fight on the side of justice against the police. Frank Lucius Packard (1877-1942) was a Canadian novelist best known for his Jimmie Dale mystery series. As a young man he worked as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. His experiences working on the railroad led to his writing a series of railroad stories and novels. Packard also wrote number of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale, a wealthy playboy by day and a fearless crime fighter by night. Jimmie Dale novels brought the idea of a costume and mask for hero's secret identity, and also established the concept of a hero's secret hideout or lair.
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Frank L. Packard. Doors of the Night (Murder Mystery Classic)
Doors of the Night
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Table of Contents
I. Across the Threshold
II. The Crime
III. Into the Underworld
IV. Alias the Rat
V. The Second-hand Dealer
VI. A Midnight Visitor
VII. Whispering Shadows
VIII. A Leash is Slipped
IX. Behind the Door
X. The Pieces of a Puzzle
XI. The Back Room at Jerry’s
XII. A Clue
XIII. The Cipher Message
XIV. The Robbery
XV. The Alibi
XVI. Twenty-four Hours Later
XVII. The Man with the Crutch
XVIII. Mirrored Years
XIX. A Hole in the Wall
XX. The Cat’s-paw
XXI. Without Mercy
XXII. The Fight
XXIII. The Rendezvous
XXIV. Against Time
XXV. The Old Warehouse
XXVI. The Last Portal
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Frank L. Packard
II. The Crime
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David Ellsworth returned, and halted before Billy Kane’s chair.
“No, I am not in my second childhood, Billy,” he said quietly. “That letter was certainly not written without a purpose; and yet from every angle that I have been able to view it, except one, it would have been exactly that—without purpose. I believe it is the first step in a carefully laid plan that will divert, or fix, suspicion upon you.”
