Blackmail!

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Fred M. White. Blackmail!

Blackmail!

Table of Contents

I. — A MAN OF LETTERS

II. — WAS IT SUICIDE?

III. — BURLINSON HAS HIS DOUBTS

IV. — A KNOT IN THE CORD

V. — A STARTLING SUGGESTION

VI. — STOTT OPENS THE GAME

VII. — CONNECTED WITH THE PRESS

VIII. — MISSING

IX. — STOTT SEES A GHOST

X. — BURLINSON FOLLOWS IT UP

XI. — THE "MIRROR" IS DIMMED

XII. — AN UNEXPECTED MEETING

XIII. — DIPLOMACY

XIV. — THE KEY OF THE SAFE

XV. — THE VESTA TRIO

XVI. — "THE APHRODITE STAR"

XVII. — CHECK TO MALCOLM STOTT

XVIII. — THE CLUE IN THE SAFE

XIX. — ON THE TRACK

XX. — A FRIEND IN NEED

XXI. — THE LETTER SPEAKS

XXII. — BAD NEWS FOR STOTT

XXIII. — A DEN OF THIEVES

XXIV. — FIRE!

XXV. — THE LONG ARM

XXVI. — A GREAT DISCOVERY

XXVII. — BROKEN-DOWN

XXVIII. — THE LAST TRICK

XXIX. — ESCAPED

XXX. — "MARRIED AND A'"

THE END

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Fred M. White

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Sir George lay as if asleep, resting his head on his arm, on the table."

But the horrible had to be faced. Like most dreadful things, it was not quite so bad as a vivid imagination had painted it. Sir George lay as if asleep, resting his head on his arm, on the table. There was no spot or stain on the mass of papers there, but the left side was one horrible sticky mess, and there was a great dark circle on the Persian carpet. The white refined face, pallid as a statue now, looked wonderfully peaceful.

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