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Title: The Sheridan Road Mystery

Author: Paul Thorne
Mabel Thorne

Posting Date: May 19, 2009 [EBook #3784]
Release Date: February, 2003
First Posted: September 4, 2001

Language: English

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THE SHERIDAN ROAD MYSTERY

by

PAUL AND MABEL THORNE

CONTENTS

I THE SHOT
II DETECTIVE SERGEANT MORGAN
III INVESTIGATION
IV THE APARTMENT ACROSS THE HALL
V PECULIAR FACTS
VI THE CABLE FROM LONDON
VII MR. MARSH
VIII A DEFINITE CLUE
IX THE LAST LETTER
X THE STOLEN SUITCASE
XI THE TRAIL GROWS CLEARER
XII MISSING
XIII STARTLING DISCLOSURES
XIV THE NIGHT CALL
XV "DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES"
XVI THE CLOSED COUNTRY HOUSE
XVII WHAT THE CARETAKER SAW
XVIII THE ENEMY SHOWS HIS HAND
XIX KIDNAPPED
XX THE FALLEN PINE
XXI THE CHIMNEY THAT WOULDN'T DRAW
XXII CORNERED
XXIII SUNSET

THE SHERIDAN ROAD MYSTERY

CHAPTER I

THE SHOT

It was a still, balmy night in late October. The scent of burned
autumn leaves hung in the air, and a hazy moon, showing just over
the housetops, deepened the shadows on the streets.

Policeman Murphy stopped far a moment, as was his custom, at the
corner of Lawrence Avenue and Sheridan Road. He knew that it was
about two o'clock in the morning as that was the hour at which he
usually reached this point. He glanced sharply up and down Sheridan
Road, which at that moment seemed to be completely deserted save for
the distant red tail-light of a belated taxi, the whir of whose
engine came to him quite distinctly on the quiet night air.

JUST THEN POLICEMAN MURPHY HEARD A SHOT!

Instantly his body quickened with an awakened alertness, and he
glanced east and west along the lonely stretch of Lawrence Avenue.
He saw nothing, and concluded that the sound he had heard must have
come from one of the many ap