The Paternoster Ruby
by Charles Edmonds Walk
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About this eBook
- Author
- Walk, Charles Edmonds, 1875-1943?
- Credits
- Produced by Al Haines
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- Detective and mystery stories
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 22212
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22212
- Release Date
- August 1, 2007
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The gem lay between them, a splash of crimson flame — The Paternoster Ruby
- 2.By CHARLES EDMONDS WALK — Author of "The Silver Blade," "The Yellow Circle," etc. — WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR BY J. V. McFALL — A. L. BURT COMPANY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK — TO M. H. W.
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.ILLUSTRATIONS — The gem lay between them, a splash of crimson flame . . . Frontispiece — Diagram of second floor — The door opened a few inches, to reveal the figure of Alexander Burke — Cipher — Cipher (repeated) — "I'll shoot," she announced in a tense tone, "so help me, I'll shoot" — "Uncle, Uncle, sit up! Don't go to pieces this way" — Cipher (repeated) — THE PATERNOSTER RUBY — CHAPTER I — THE SHERIDAN PARK MYSTERY — CHAPTER II — THE PRIVATE SECRETARY — CHAPTER III — SOME DISCOVERIES — CHAPTER IV — THE RUBY — CHAPTER V — THE HIDDEN SAFE — CHAPTER VI — AN EXTRAORDINARY ERRAND — CHAPTER VII — HOW THE ERRAND ENDED — CHAPTER VIII — MAILLOT'S EXPERIENCE — CHAPTER IX — TRACKS IN THE SNOW — CHAPTER X — THE SECOND STORY — Diagram of second floor — CHAPTER XI — A PACT — CHAPTER XII — THE CIPHER — The door opened a few inches, to reveal the figure of Alexander Burke — CHAPTER XIII — DISCLOSURES — CHAPTER XIV — RIDDLES — CHAPTER XV — A WOMAN'S SCREAM — CHAPTER XVI — THE FACE IN THE ALCOVE — CHAPTER XVII — PRISON DOORS — CHAPTER XVIII — A FIGHT IN THE DARK — CHAPTER XIX — BELLE — "I 'll shoot," she announced in a tense tone, "so help me, I 'll shoot." — CHAPTER XX — GENEVIEVE'S MISSION — CHAPTER XXI — SHADOWS — CHAPTER XXII — ASHES OF OLD ROMANCE — CHAPTER XXIII — BURKE UNBOSOMS — CHAPTER XXIV — CONFESSION — "Uncle, Uncle! Sit up! Don't go to pieces this way" — CHAPTER XXV — "THIMBLE, THIMBLE——" — CHAPTER XXVI — THE CIPHER SOLVED
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