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    Madame Storey Intervenes
    Madame Storey Intervenes
    Madame Storey Intervenes
    Ebook33 pages27 minutes

    Madame Storey Intervenes

    By Hulbert Footner

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    Author Hulbert Footner (1879-1944) brought the excitement of the 1920s and 1930s to Madame Storey's cosmopolitan adventures, moving away from Edwardian and Victorian flavors of the mystery genre. Beautiful and aloof. Her secretary/narrator/companion is Bella Brickley. Rosika lives near Gramercy Park in NYC and has a pet monkey. She seems to solve cases by use of good guesswork, "practical psychology" and fortuitous prior knowledge of certain facts or people.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKtoczyta.pl
    Release dateOct 22, 2017
    ISBN9788381360562
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      Madame Storey Intervenes - Hulbert Footner

      Hulbert Footner

      Madame Storey Intervenes

      Warsaw 2017

      Contents

      IN order to recuperate from the strain of the tremendous publicity that followed upon her success in the famous case of the Smoke Bandit, Mme. Storey retired for a few days to the house of her close friends, the Andrew Lipscombs, who lived in the Connecticut hills remote from any neighbor. I accompanied my employer, since she insisted that I needed a holiday as well as herself.

      We simply locked up, our offices and went away, leaving the telephone to ring, the mail to accumulate, and the hordes of curiosity-seekers to mill around the door as they would. We supposed that we had kept the place of our retreat a secret from all, but that fond hope was soon dissipated. Late on the night of our arrival, as we were playing bridge with our friends in the blessed quietude of their house, my employer was called to the telephone.

      She returned to the card table with the grave remote look that I knew so well, her working look, and my heart sank.

      Well, Bella, we have another case, she said.

      I laid down my cards. It was useless to protest, of course.

      There’s been a terrible affair down at Fremont-on-the-Sound, she went on. A gentleman has been found shot dead in his study, and a young girl has been arrested. The man who called me up, evidently the girl’s lover, begged me to come and try to get her off. His voice coming through the receiver had an extraordinary quality; young an manly; shaken with grief and agitation; yet proud and confident of his girl; it won me completely. I said I would drive right down.

      Murder? said Mr. Lipscomb, startled, and so close to, us? Who’s been murdered?

      Cornelius Suydam.

      Good God! cried our host, springing up. Why, he’s the great man of the neighborhood. His house, Fernhurst, is one of the show places! Who is said to have killed him?

      The girl’s name is Laila Darnall.

      Both Mr. and Mrs. Lipscomb stared at my employer in a stupefied fashion. The former was the first to find his voice.

      Merciful Heaven! he gasped. "She’s his ward! Said to be

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