The Clue of the Twisted Candle

by Edgar Wallace, Seif Moawad (Editor)

Overview

I am afraid I don't understand you, Mr. Lyne. Odette Rider looked gravely at the young man who lolled against his open desk. Her clear skin was tinted with the faintest pink, and there was in the sober depths of those grey eyes of hers a light which would have warned a man less satisfied with his own genius and power of persuasion than Thornton Lyne. He was not looking at her face. His eyes were running approvingly over her perfect figure, noting the straightness of the back, the fine poise of the head, the shapeliness of the slender hands. He pushed back his long black hair from his forehead and smiled. It pleased him to believe that his face was cast in an intellectual mould, and that the somewhat unhealthy pastiness of his skin might be described as the "pallor of thought."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788129293879
Publisher:	Al-Mashreq eBookstore
Publication date:	09/12/2024
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	383 KB
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

About the Author

Edgar Wallace was an English writer, known for his prolific literary output and famous for his detective-themed works. Born "Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace" in London in 1875, he grew up in poverty and left school at the age of twelve. At twenty-one, he joined the army and worked as a war correspondent for Reuters during the Second Boer War. His most famous works include The Council of Justice, The Clue of the Twisted Candle, and The Seven Locks, along with many serialized short stories and collections such as Sanders of the River. He also created the character "King Kong." Wallace passed away in 1932.