Download or read book The Sleuth of St James s Square written by Melville Davisson Post and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-08-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once considered by many to be the greatest American mystery writer of all time, Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930) has begun to fall into undeserved obscurity in the near century since his death. The Sleuth of St. James’s Square, first published as a book in 1920, aptly demonstrates his strengths, and it makes a good place to start for anyone encountering Post’s work for the first time. This volumes includes 16 mystery stories, each connected—if sometimes tangentially—to Sir Henry Marquis, head of the Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard, who is called upon to solve some of the strangest and most puzzling cases in Britain. It starts with a locked-room mystery and ends in Scotland, at a house by a Loch where more is going on than meets the eye. A first-rate collection.
Download or read book The Sleuth of St James s Square written by Melville Davisson Post and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I suppose there is no longer any doubt about the fact that Rodman was one of those gigantic human intelligences who sometimes appear in the world, and by their immense conceptions dwarf all human knowledge—a sort of mental monster that we feel nature has no right to produce. Lord Bayless Truxley said that Rodman was some generations in advance of the time; and Lord Bayless Truxley was, beyond question, the greatest authority on synthetic chemistry in the world...FROM THE BOOKS.
Download or read book The Sleuth St James s Square written by Melville Davidson Post and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Sleuth of St James s Square written by Melville Davisson Post and published by Alan Rodgers Books. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Sleuth of St. James's Square" is a collection of sixteen short mystery and crime stories written by Melville Davisson Post, a West Virginia author who gained international acclaim for his writing. The tales included in this volume are: "The Thing on the Hearth," "The Reward," "The Lost Lady," "The Cambered Foot," "The Man in the Green Hat," "The Wrong Sign," "The Fortune Teller," "The Hole in the Mahogany Panel," "The End of the Road," "The Last Adventure," "American Horses," "The Spread Rails," "The Pumpkin Coast," "The Yellow Flower," "A Satire of the Sea," and The House by the Loch."
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Download or read book The Sleuth of St James s Square written by Post Melville Davisson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Sleuth of St. James's Square" is a collection of sixteen short mystery and crime stories written by Melville Davisson Post, a West Virginia author who gained international acclaim for his writing. The tales included in this volume are: "The Thing on the Hearth," "The Reward," "The Lost Lady," "The Cambered Foot," "The Man in the Green Hat," "The Wrong Sign," "The Fortune Teller," "The Hole in the Mahogany Panel," "The End of the Road," "The Last Adventure," "American Horses," "The Spread Rails," "The Pumpkin Coast," "The Yellow Flower," "A Satire of the Sea," and The House by the Loch."
Download or read book The Sleuth of St James s Square written by Melville Davisson Post and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-12 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "THE first confirmatory evidence of the thing, Excellency, was the print of a woman's bare foot."He was an immense creature. He sat in an upright chair that seemed to have been provided especially for him. The great bulk of him flowed out and filled the chair. It did not seem to be fat that enveloped him. It seemed rather to be some soft, tough fiber, like the pudgy mass making up the body of a deep-sea thing. One got an impression of strength.The country was before the open window; the clusters of cultivated shrub on the sweep of velvet lawn extending to the great wall that inclosed the place, then the bend of the river and beyond the distant mountains, blue and mysterious, blending indiscernibly into the sky. A soft sun, clouded with the haze of autumn, shone over it."You know how the faint moisture in the bare foot will make an impression."He paused as though there was some compelling force in the reflection. It was impossible to say, with accuracy, to what race the man belonged. He came from some queer blend of Eastern peoples.
Download or read book The Sleuth of St James s Square Classic Reprint written by Melville Davisson Post and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Sleuth of St. James's Square And there is another thing that I want you to think about. Think about the immense destruction of value - not to us, so greatly, for our stocks of precious stones are not large; but the thing meant, practically, wiping out all the assembled wealth of Asia except the actual earth and its structures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Sleuth of St James s Square Illustrated written by Melville Davisson Post and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
Download or read book The Greatest Mystery Cases of Detective Henry Marquis Complete 16 Tales in One Edition written by Melville Davisson Post and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Henry Marquis is the Chief of Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard, who used to be in charge of the English secret service on the frontier of the Shan states, and at the time he was in Asia. Intensely interested in crime solving, Sir Henry is a linking component between the various cases, each presenting him in a new light. In some tales he's an investigator, actively involved in the case, and in some he listens to other's twisting accounts about some strange incident. Table of Contents: The Thing on the Hearth The Reward The Lost Lady The Cambered Foot The Man in the Green Hat The Wrong Sign The Fortune Teller The Hole in the Mahogany Panel The End of the Road The Last Adventure American Horses The Spread Rails The Pumpkin Coach The Yellow Flower Satire of the Sea The House by the Loch Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930) was an American author, born in West Virginia. Post's best-known character is the mystery solving, justice dispensing West Virginian backwoodsman, Uncle Abner. Post also wrote number of stories about Randolph Mason, a brusque New York lawyer who is highly skilled at turning legal loopholes and technicalities to his clients' advantage. Post's other recurring characters include Sir Henry Marquis of Scotland Yard, the French policeman Monsieur Jonquelle and the Virginia lawyer Colonel Braxton.
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