John Dickson Carr's Scandal at High Chimneys PDF

By John Dickson Carr

ISBN-10: 1480472433

ISBN-13: 9781480472433

A Grand grasp of the British-style detective tale brings Victorian England to bright existence during this homicide secret, which critic Anthony Boucher hailed as a "faultless formal puzzle in detection"In 1865, novelist Clive Strickland is stress-free at his membership whilst his pal Victor Damon involves him in a panic, begging Clive to assist him marry off his sister to a cash-poor marquis whose affections reek of gold-digging. Victor doesn't care. anything sinister lurks at excessive Chimneys and he desires his sisters out of the home sooner than their lives are installed danger.Old Matthew Damon, their father, has lengthy been dogged by means of scandalous rumors of solitary visits to the cells of girls approximately to be hanged for homicide. but if homicide is finished at excessive Chimneys, Strickland and personal investigator Jonathan Whicher must deal with the rumors and glance at the back of the discreetly drawn curtains of excessive Chimneys for a killer.

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Gable’s vibe at this early point in his Hollywood career was enacting a growling tough guy, usually named Ace, or Rid, or Rod, and this time Babe. It was his first pic35 The Long Road ture after making MGM’s sensational Red Dust, a sexy and saucy pre-Code picture that had teamed him with Jean Harlow, the blonde bombshell who had stolen Howard Hughes from Lombard. No Man of Her Own became the only picture with both Clark Gable and Carole Lombard except for a silent comedy called The Plastic Age, starring sex symbol Clara Bow and featuring both Carole and Clark in bit parts.

Thirteen short years later, this same James Doolittle, then an Air Corps colonel, would mastermind the first United States air raid on Tokyo, Japan, just four months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Lombard the voracious reader might have seen a story about Doolittle in the newspaper. It’s more likely she had her hands full with life at a studio the size of Pathe Pictures. Somewhere in this period, during her time under Pathe contract, Lombard adopted the salty vocabulary of a dockworker, and according to her brother Fred Peters, she did it deliberately as a way to level the playing field with the men then in charge, most of whom were wolves at the least, with some unashamed sexual predators thrown in.

Van Gordon was a quick thinker and ran to the phone to call the local sheriff and then hurried back out and stared at the soaring flames. He knew it was a plane; he had heard the humming engines right up until the sound of the explosion. Van Gordon’s first impulse was to rush to the scene, but he knew the looming mountain well enough to understand there was no point to such rash action in the dark of night. That mountain didn’t want people on it; that mountain would kill you easy as you please.

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