This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...Towers, especially in the dark and when it's raining cats and dogs. The rod was in wretched condition, too--you might have got struck. Why didn't you go out by the kitchen window? There's where I was waiting for you." The eyes of the man on the bed narrowed. "Come ag'in!" he snapped. "I busted me runner tryin' to jump ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...Towers, especially in the dark and when it's raining cats and dogs. The rod was in wretched condition, too--you might have got struck. Why didn't you go out by the kitchen window? There's where I was waiting for you." The eyes of the man on the bed narrowed. "Come ag'in!" he snapped. "I busted me runner tryin' to jump a beam, an' I don't know nothin' about no Ivy Towers nor lightnin'rods.' "What were you looking in the paper for, then!" "Politics. I always send out for one the first thing in the mornin'." "All right, Mike. But I'd like to make a bargain with you. Don't tell anybody I 've been here, and don't spill your real story to the police till I've seen you again. I needn't ask you not to run away--you can't." "I'd make a bargain wit' you, Ferret, as soon as wit' any fly cop livin'--an' sooner, 'cause yeh're square, an' if yeh says yeh won't pros'cute yeh won't," said Chicago Mike, causing the bill which had been slipped into his hand to disappear under the bedclothes. "An' I ain't likely to spill no story to the bulls as I ain 't got none to spill, 'ceptin' that about the rattler. But if yeh's figurin' on my comin' through with a bit of info' to you later on, somethin' more'n a fiver has got to pass." "Tell me all that happened last night," said the detective, "and I'll agree to get you off on any charge that's brought against you--short of murder." "Murder?" Mike sat abruptly up in bed, then lowered himself carefully to the pillow, his eyes dilated with fright. "Are--are yeh kiddin' me? Yeh know I never croaked a guy in my life.' "I know you never did, unless it was last night. But there was murder done. Are you ready to come clean?" Chi...
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Good+ No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. No statement of edition or printing. Red cloth with black lettering. The boards are stained and bleached in spots. Moderate shelfwear, with wear along the front board's fore edge and the spine ends. The front board is slightly bowed. Two leaves have short tears at their fore edges. In a sound binding with hinges stretched but intact.
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Good. No Jacket. The first Ferris McClue mystery, no edition indication. Red boards bumped and rubbed with light wear at the edges, spine a bit sunned with a small "X" written under the title, drip mark on the back. Front hinge cracked, rear loose.
