The Black Star (Vintage Mysteries Series). Johnston McCulley
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Название: The Black Star (Vintage Mysteries Series)

Автор: Johnston McCulley

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       Johnston McCulley

      The Black Star

      (Vintage Mysteries Series)

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      2019 OK Publishing

      EAN 4064066051259

      Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I—AN AIDED ESCAPE

       CHAPTER II—THE BLACK STAR

       CHAPTER III—INTO THE PIT

       CHAPTER IV—ROGUE FOR A DAY

       CHAPTER V—MUGGS ON GUARD

       CHAPTER VI—AN UNPROFITABLE AFTERNOON

       CHAPTER VII—IDENTICAL ORDERS

       CHAPTER VIII—THE POLICE GET A TIP

       CHAPTER IX—“CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST”

       CHAPTER X—CAUGHT IN A NET

       CHAPTER XI—CLOSE QUARTERS

       CHAPTER XII—AT THE CHARITY BALL

       CHAPTER XIII—MUGGS—GREAT LITTLE MAN

       CHAPTER XIV—UNEXPECTED NEWS

       CHAPTER XV—THE CHALLENGE

       CHAPTER XVI—A NOCTURNAL VISIT

       CHAPTER XVII—INTERRUPTED CONVERSATION

       CHAPTER XVIII—MYSTERIES

       CHAPTER XIX—SUSPICION

       CHAPTER XX—THE VOICE ON THE WIRE

       CHAPTER XXI—THE END OF THE WIRE

       CHAPTER XXII—ON THE SCENT

       CHAPTER XXXII.—INTO THE VAULT

       CHAPTER XXIV—HOW IT ENDED

       CHAPTER XXV—SHADOWED BY THREE

       CHAPTER XXVI—A MAN OF MYSTERY

       CHAPTER XXVII—IN BLACK STAR’S HANDS

       CHAPTER XXVIII—THE POLICE LAUNCH

       CHAPTER XXIX—BLACK STAR TAKES A TRICK

       CHAPTER XXX—MUGGS IN ACTION

       CHAPTER XXXI—IN THE BANK

       CHAPTER XXXII—A NARROW ESCAPE

       CHAPTER XXXIII—PUZZLED POLICE

       CHAPTER XXXIV—WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CHIEF

       CHAPTER XXXV—AN UNEXPECTED BLOW

       CHAPTER XXXVI—IN CUSTODY

      CHAPTER I—AN AIDED ESCAPE

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      Winds whistled up the river, and winds whistled down from the hills, and they met to swirl and gather fury and rattle the city’s millions of windowpanes. They carried a mixture of sleet and fine snow, the first herald of the winter to come. In the business district they swung signs madly back and forth, and roared around the corners of high office buildings, and swept madly against struggling trolley cars. They poured through the man-made cañons; they dashed out the broad boulevards—and so they came to the attention of Mr. Roger Verbeck, at about the hour of midnight, as he turned over in his warm bed and debated whether to rise and lower the window or take a chance with the rapidly lowering temperature.

      “Beastly night!” Verbeck confided to himself, and put his head beneath the covers.

      He slept—and suddenly he СКАЧАТЬ