The Bartlett Mystery
Реклама. ООО «ЛитРес», ИНН: 7719571260.
Оглавление
Tracy Louis. The Bartlett Mystery
CHAPTER I. A GATHERING AT A CLUB
CHAPTER II. A DARING CRIME
CHAPTER III. WINIFRED BARTLETT HEARS SOMETHING
CHAPTER IV. FURTHER SURPRISES
CHAPTER V. PERSECUTORS
CHAPTER VI. BROTHER RALPH
CHAPTER VII. STILL MERE MYSTERY
CHAPTER VIII. THE DREAM FACE
CHAPTER IX. THE FLIGHT
CHAPTER X. CARSHAW TAKES UP THE CHASE
CHAPTER XI. THE TWO CARS
CHAPTER XII. THE PURSUIT
CHAPTER XIII. THE NEW LINK
CHAPTER XIV. A SUBTLE ATTACK
CHAPTER XV. THE VISITOR
CHAPTER XVI. WINIFRED DRIFTS
CHAPTER XVII. ALL ROADS LEAD TO EAST ORANGE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE CRASH
CHAPTER XIX. CLANCY EXPLAINS
CHAPTER XX. IN THE TOILS
CHAPTER XXI. MOTHER AND SON
CHAPTER XXII. THE HUNT
CHAPTER XXIII “HE WHO FIGHTS AND RUNS AWAY – ”
CHAPTER XXIV. IN FULL CRY
CHAPTER XXV. FLANK ATTACKS
CHAPTER XXVI. THE BITER BIT
CHAPTER XXVII. THE SETTLEMENT
Отрывок из книги
It was no part of Detective Clancy’s business to pry into the private affairs of Senator Meiklejohn. Senators are awkward fish to handle, being somewhat similar to whales caught in nets designed to capture mackerel. But the Bureau is no respecter of persons. Men much higher up in politics and finance than William Meiklejohn would be disagreeably surprised if they could read certain details entered opposite their names in the dossiers kept by the police department. Still, it behooved Clancy to tread warily.
As it happened, he was just the man for this self-imposed duty. Two Celtic strains mingled in his blood, while American birth and training had not only quickened his intelligence but imparted a quality of wide-eyed shrewdness to a daring initiative. When he and the bluff Steingall worked together the malefactor on whose heels they pressed had a woeful time. As one blood-stained rascal put it in a bitter moment before the electric chair claimed him for the expiation of his last and worst crime:
.....
Clancy, afire with rage and a sense of inexplicable failure, realized that Meiklejohn’s admission and its now compulsory explanation could wait a calmer moment. The club attendant, attracted by the hubbub, raced to the lawn, and the detective tackled him.
“Isn’t there a motor launch on the yacht?” he asked.
.....