Nine Strings to your Bow

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Maurice Walsh. Nine Strings to your Bow

1 – CON MADDEN ESSAYS TO SELL DANIEL GLOVER

2 – PETER FALKNER COMES HOME

3 – CON MADDEN PICKS HIS TEAM

4 – THE TEAM GOES INTO CONFERENCE BUT CON IS NOT HAPPY

5 – TOO MANY STRINGS

6 – THE RODENT IN A CORNER

7 – CON MADDEN BARKS UP A TREE

8 – SOME GROUNDWORK AT THE BIG HOUSE

9 – A PICTURE IS PAINTED

10 – CON MADDEN GOES ON A FAST

11 – CLEARED FOR ACTION

12 – THE MAN IN BROWN LIMPS AGAIN

13 – THE NIGGER IN THE WOODPILE

14 – THE GOD FROM THE MACHINE

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THE tall man slouched along the pavement, and, though he moved lazily, his gait gave a sense of controlled power. He was bareheaded under the forenoon sun of early June, and his thick light hair was thrown off his brow in a cow’s lick. He was smoking a cigarette and smoking it too rapidly, and cursing warmly underneath his breath.

“Blast you, Daniel! ‘Make contact. Sell yourself.’ Just like that, my gallant strategist! But how the bloody wars am I going to begin?”

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“Once a policeman always a policeman. I would not condone murder. If I investigated your case and found fresh evidence against you, I would do my damndest to get you hanged.”

“Is that a dare, sir?”

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