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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 170 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=10mm, Gew.=259gr, [GR: 21200 - TB/Belletristik/Kriminalromane], [S… mais…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 170 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=10mm, Gew.=259gr, [GR: 21200 - TB/Belletristik/Kriminalromane], [SW: - Fiction - Mystery / Detective], Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V THE CRYING THROUGH THE WOODS inability to cry out alone prevented his alarming the others and announcing to Paredes and Doctor Groom his unlawful presence in the room. During the moment that the shock held him, silent, motionless, bent in the darkness above the bed, he understood there could have been no ambiguity about his ghastly and loathsome experience. The dead detective had altered his position as Silas Blackburn had done, and this time someone had been in the room and suffered the appalling change. Bobby's fingers still responded to the charnel feeling of cold, inactive flesh suddenly become alive and potent beneath his touch. And a reason for the apparent miracle offered itself. Between the extinction of his candle and the commencement of that movement!?only a second or so ?the evidence had disappeared from the detective's pocket. Bobby relaxed. He stumbled across the room and into the corridor. He went with hands outstretched through the blackness, for no candle burned in the upper hall, but he knew that Katherinewas on guard there. When he left the passage he saw her, an unnatural figure herself, in the yellowish, unhealthy twilight which sifted through the stair well from the lamp in the hall below. She must have sensed something out of the way immediately, for she hurried to meet him and her whisper held no assurance. "You got the cast and the handkerchief, Bobby?" And when he didn't answer at once she asked with a sharp rush of fear: " What's the matter? What's happened? " He shuddered. At last he managed to speak. "Katherine! I have felt death cease to be death." Later he was to recall that phrase with a sicker horror than he experienced now. "You saw something!" she said. "But your candle is out. There is no light in the ...<

ISBN: 9780217998284

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Th… mais…

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V THE CRYING THROUGH THE WOODS inability to cry out alone prevented his alarming the others and announcing to Paredes and Doctor Groom his unlawful presence in the room. During the moment that the shock held him, silent, motionless, bent in the darkness above the bed, he understood there could have been no ambiguity about his ghastly and loathsome experience. The dead detective had altered his position as Silas Blackburn had done, and this time someone had been in the room and suffered the appalling change. Bobby's fingers still responded to the charnel feeling of cold, inactive flesh suddenly become alive and potent beneath his touch. And a reason for the apparent miracle offered itself. Between the extinction of his candle and the commencement of that movement!?only a second or so ?the evidence had disappeared from the detective's pocket. Bobby relaxed. He stumbled across the room and into the corridor. He went with hands outstretched through the blackness, for no candle burned in the upper hall, but he knew that Katherinewas on guard there. When he left the passage he saw her, an unnatural figure herself, in the yellowish, unhealthy twilight which sifted through the stair well from the lamp in the hall below. She must have sensed something out of the way immediately, for she hurried to meet him and her whisper held no assurance. "You got the cast and the handkerchief, Bobby?" And when he didn't answer at once she asked with a sharp rush of fear: " What's the matter? What's happened? " He shuddered. At last he managed to speak. "Katherine! I have felt death cease to be death." Later he was to recall that phrase with a sicker horror than he experienced now. "You saw something!" she said. "But your candle is out. There is no light in the ...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen<

ISBN: 0217998283

EAN: 9780217998284, ISBN: 0217998283 [SW:Fiction - Mystery / Detective ; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General], [VÖ:20090800], Buch (ling.)