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Author: Fergus Hume
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Crimson Cryptogram" (A Detective Story) by Fergus Hume. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Fergus Hume
Publisher: DigiCat
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Pages : 172
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Crimson Cryptogram" (A Detective Story) by Fergus Hume. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Fergus Hume
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ISBN: 9781975814083
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Pages : 255
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Collector's Edition - unedited and unabridged paperback. Robert Ellis, MD, wanted a normal life, moderate income, a home, and a wife. One night, Ellis sat, speaking to his journalist friend Harry Cass, complaining of his slow businesses and problematical future. Cass had all but decided that matrimony was a luxury a poor man must dispense with if he wanted to get on. It was at this point in the conversation that a young woman rang the doorbell. She proved to be pretty, bareheaded and apparently wild with terror. "My husband...my husband is...dead!" She paused with a catching in the throat, then her voice leaped to alto: "Murdered!" Her story was enough to rattle both men and encourage them to accompany her to the scene of the crime. While there, Ellis found a curious clue to the murder. Ellis drew off the shirt, the cuffs of which were dappled with blood, he noticed strange marks on the left arm. From wrist to elbow, on the inner part of the arm, various signs appeared on the white skin. These were rudely streaked with blood, and Ellis afterwards copied them into his note-book, thinking they might be useful later on, as indeed they proved to be. It transpired that the man was the son of Edgar Allan Moxton, the great picture-dealer of Bond Street, who died, leaving a large fortune behind him. The rest of the story would not be so straightforward.
Author: Fergus Hume
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Author: Fergus Hume
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Category : Cryptograms
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Author: Fergus Hume
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230299501
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Pages : 60
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVI THE END OF THE STORY So in this way the truth was discovered, and Ellis returned to show the confession of Captain Garret to Mrs Moxton. Laura was so overcome that her innocence was proved, her dread was removed, that she fainted during the recital. While Ellis and Janet were looking after her, Cass arrived. Mrs Moxton recovered her senses, and retired to lie down; while Harry, having read the confession, discussed what was to be done with it. "If you show it to the police, I am afraid Schwartz will get into trouble, as he has permitted a criminal to escape." "That is true enough," replied Ellis. "For my part, now that we have absolute proof of Mrs Moxton's innocence, I don't think it is necessary to make the matter public." "Mr Busham may do so, out of revenge," said Janet. "Don't you believe it, Miss Gordon. Busham, by the showing of this confession, knew all about the crime. He saw it committed, he tampered with Garret, and held his tongue in order to secure Moxton's money. On the face of it, he is an accessory after the fact, and, terrified by the fear of punishment, will keep silence. Besides, even if he does speak, we can first warn Schwartz to leave England, and then inform the police. Busham does not know, and never will know, that Schwartz has been implicated in Garret's escape." "What Harry says is very true," chimed in Ellis. "I think all danger is over." "Thank God for that!" cried Janet, clasping her hands. "Oh, how terrible these past months have been!" "You will have no more trouble if I can help it," said the doctor, taking her hand. "What I said when I believed you to be Mrs Moxton, I say now; and I ask you to be my honoured wife." Janet sobbed. "You forget! I have a shady past!" "A noble past. You have been...
Author: Fergus Hume
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ISBN: 9781295193462
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Pages : 278
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ The Crimson Cryptogram: A Detective Story Fergus Hume New Amsterdam book co., 1902
Author: Fergus Hume
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ISBN: 9781979586351
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Pages : 108
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I. A MIDNIGHT SURPRISE"Poverty, naked and unconcealed! One can endure that, with some patience, as a beaten soldier in the battle of life. But genteel pauperism--the semi-poverty of the middle-class, that lives a necessary lie at the cost of incessant worry and constant defeat--there you have the true misery of life. Believe me, Cass, there is no torture like that of an ambition which cannot be attained for lack of money.""I did not know you were ambitious, Ellis.""Not of setting the Thames on fire. My desires are limited to a good practice, a moderate income, a home, and a wife to love me. These wishes are reasonable enough, Heaven knows, yet some cursed Fate prevents their realisation. And I have to sit down and wait; a doctor can do nothing else. I must listen with such philosophy as I have for the ring of the door bell to announce my first patient, and the ring never comes. The heart grows sick, the brain rusty, the money goes, the temper sours, and so I pass the best days of my life.""All things come to him who knows how to wait," said Cass, knocking the ashes out of a well-smoked briar."And the horse is the noblest of all animals," retorted Ellis. "I never did find consolation in proverbs of that class."The two men sat in their dingy sitting-room talking as usual of a problematical future. Every night they discussed the subject, and every discussion ended without any definite conclusion being arrived at. Indeed, only Fortune could have terminated the arguments in a satisfactory manner, but as yet the fickle deity showed no disposition to make a third in the conversation. Therefore, Robert Ellis, M.D., and Harry Cass, journalist, talked, and talked, and talked. They also hoped for the best, a state of mind sufficiently eloquent of their penniless position. Unless they or their relatives are sick, rich people have no need to hope for the best. The second virtue dwells almost exclusively with the poor and ambitious, as do her two sisters.Supper was just over, but even cold beef, pickles and bottled beer, with the after comfort of a pipe, could not make Ellis happy. The more philosophical Cass lay on the ragged sofa and digested his meal, while the doctor walked up and down the room railing at Fate. He was a tall young man, clean-limbed, and sufficiently good-looking. Poverty and former opulence showed themselves in the threadbare velveteen smoking suit he wore; and the past recurred to him as he flicked some ash off this relic of bygone days."O Lord!" he said regretfully, "how jolly life was when I bought these clothes some five years ago! My father had not died a bankrupt country squire then; and I was a rowdy medico, with plenty of money, and a weakness for the other sex.""You haven't strengthened in that direction, Bob.""Perhaps not; but I never think of women now--not even of a possible wife. Matrimony is a luxury a poor man must dispense with, if he wants to get on. I have dispensed with every blessed thing short of the bare necessities of existence, yet I don't get any reward. Every dog has his day, they say: but the day of this poor cur never seems to dawn.""You are more bitter than usual, Ellis.""Because I am sick of my life. You have some compensations, Harry, in connection with that newspaper you write for. You mix with your fellow-men; you exchange ideas; you have your finger on the pulse of civilisation. But I sit in this dismal room, or walk about this B[oe]otian neighbourhood, in the vain hope of getting a start. I can't rush out and drag in someone to be dosed; I can't go from house to house soliciting patients. I can only wait wait, wait; until I feel inclined to blow my brains out.""If you did that, Bob, the folly of the act would prove that you have none," said Cass. "Come, old man, buck up; something is sure to turn up when you least expect it."
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Author: R. A. J. Walling
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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This is a mystery novel that revolves around Philip Tolefree, an insurance broker. Ronald Hudson, a travel writer disguises himself and pays a visit to Philip Tolefree. Ronald presents Philip with an anonymous letter written in code that he hopes the insurance broker can decipher. But Tolefree is concerned and fears Ronald has committed a crime. Then a chance phone call connects Hudson's visit to the murder of a scientist at a country house party. Will Tolefree's worst fears be confirmed? Why did Hudson disguise himself?
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Category : Arts
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Pages : 896
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