| Title | : | Fifty Candles: Wildside Mystery Classics (Unabridged) |
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| Author | : | Earl Derr Biggers |
| Release | : | 2011-11-01 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Fiction |
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| 1 | Fifty Candles: Wildside Mystery Classics | Earl Derr Biggers |
| Death in San Francisco... "Suddenly, from across the hall, came a cry - sharp, uncanny, terrible. I ran out in the direction from which it had come and stood on the threshold of the Drew dining room. A table was set with gleaming silver and white linen, and in its center stood a cake, on which fifty absurd pink candles flickered bravely. There appeared to be no one in the room. On the other side of the table, a French window stood open to the fog, and I went around to investigate. I had taken perhaps a dozen steps when I stopped, appalled. "Old Drew was lying on the carpet, and one yellow lean hand, always so adept at reaching out and seizing, held a corner of the white tablecloth. There was a dark stain on the left side of his dress coat; and when I pulled the coat back, I saw on the otherwise spotless linen underneath a great red circle that grew and grew. He was quite dead. "I stood erect, and for a dazed uncertain moment, I stared about the room. Beside me, on the table, fifty yellow points of flame trembled like human things terrified at what they had seen." |
