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       E. W. Hornung

      Vintage Mysteries – 6 Intriguing Brainteasers in One Premium Edition

      The Shadow of the Rope, The Camera Fiend, Dead Men Tell No Tales, Witching Hill, Stingaree

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      Table of Contents

       The Shadow of the Rope

       The Camera Fiend

       Dead Men Tell No Tales

       Witching Hill

       Stingaree: A Voice in the Wilderness

       At the Pistol’s Point

       The Shadow of a Man

      The Shadow of the Rope

       Table of Contents

      TO MY FRIEND

       EDWARD SHORTT

       Chapter I. The End of Their Life

       Chapter II. The Case for the Crown

       Chapter III. Name and Nature

       Chapter IV. The Man in the Train

       Chapter V. The Man in the Street

       Chapter VI. A Peripatetic Providence

       Chapter VII. A Morning Call

       Chapter VIII. The Dove and the Serpent

       Chapter IX. A Change of Scene

       Chapter X. A Slight Discrepancy

       Chapter XI. Another New Friend

       Chapter XII. Episode of the Invisible Visitor

       Chapter XIII. The Australian Room

       Chapter XIV. Battle Royal

       Chapter XV. A Chance Encounter

       Chapter XVI. A Match for Mrs. Venables

       Chapter XVII. Friends in Need

       Chapter XVIII. "They Which were Bidden"

       Chapter XIX. Rachel's Champion

       Chapter XX. More Haste

       Chapter XXI. Worse Speed

       Chapter XXII. The Darkest Hour

       Chapter XXIII. Dawn

       Chapter XXIV. One Who was Not Bidden

       Chapter XXV. A Point to Langholm

       Chapter XXVI. A Cardinal Point

       Chapter XXVII. The Whole Truth

       Chapter XXVIII. In the Matter of a Motive

      Chapter I

       The End of Their Life

       Table of Contents

      "It is finished," said the woman, speaking very quietly to herself. "Not another day, nor a night, if I can be ready before morning!"

      She stood alone in her own room, with none to mark the white-hot pallor of the oval face, the scornful curve of quivering nostrils, the dry lustre of flashing eyes. But while she stood a heavy step went blustering down two flights of stairs, and double doors slammed upon the ground floor.

      It was a little London house, with five floors from basement to attic, and a couple of rooms upon each, like most little houses in London; but this one had latterly been the scene of an equally undistinguished drama of real life, upon which the curtain was even now descending. Although a third was whispered by the world, the persons of this drama were really only two.

      Rachel Minchin, before the disastrous step which gave her that surname, was a young Australian lady whose apparent attractions were only equalled by her absolute poverty; that is to say, she had been born at Heidelberg, near Melbourne, of English parents more gentle than practical, who soon left her to fight the world and the devil with no other armory than a good face, a fine nature, and the pride of any heiress. It is true that Rachel also had a voice; but there was never enough of it to augur an income. At twenty, therefore, she was already a governess in the wilds, where women are as scarce as water, but where the man for Rachel did not breathe. A few years later she earned a berth to England as companion


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