Robert Barr

DEATH COMETH SOON OR LATE: 35+ Mystery & Revenge Tales


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       Robert Barr

      DEATH COMETH SOON OR LATE: 35+ Mystery & Revenge Tales

       An Electrical Slip, The Vengeance of the Dead, The Great Pegram Mystery, The Vengeance of the Dead and many more

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       [email protected] 2017 OK Publishing ISBN 978-80-7583-182-8

       Face and the Mask

       Death Cometh Soon or Late

       The Woman of Stone

       The Chemistry of Anarchy

       The Fear of It

       The Metamorphoses of Johnson

       The Reclamation of Joe Hollends

       The Type-Written Letter

       The Doom of London

       The Predicament of De Plonville

       A New Explosive

       The Great Pegram Mystery

       High Stakes

       "Where Ignorance Is Bliss"

       The Departure of Cub Mclean

       Old Number Eighty-Six

       Playing With Marked Cards

       The Bruiser's Courtship

       The Raid On Mellish

       Striking Back

       Crandall's Choice

       The Failure of Bradley

       Ringamy's Convert

       A Slippery Customer

       The Sixth Bench

       Revenge!

       An Alpine Divorce

       Which Was The Murderer?

       A Dynamite Explosion

       An Electrical Slip

       The Vengeance of the Dead

       Over The Stelvio Pass

       The Hour and the Man

       "And the Rigour of the Game"

       The Bromley Gibberts Story

       Not According to the Code

       A Modern Samson

       A Deal on 'Change

       Transformation

       The Shadow of the Greenback

       The Understudy

       "Out Of Thun"

       A Dramatic Point

       Two Florentine Balconies

       The Exposure of Lord Stansford

       Purification

      Face and the Mask

       Table of Contents

      Death Cometh Soon or Late

       Table of Contents

      It was Alick Robbins who named the invalid the Living Skeleton, and probably remorse for having thus given him a title so descriptively accurate, caused him to make friends with the Living Skeleton, a man who seemed to have no friends.

      Robbins never forgot their first conversation. It happened in this way. It was the habit of the Living Skeleton to leave his hotel every morning promptly at ten o'clock, if the sun was shining, and to shuffle