Before they parted, Richardson put one question to him. “Have you ever heard of a bridge club called the Worthing, a place where the stakes are high?” “You mean a cock-and-hen club. I’ve heard of it, but it’s a most respectable place. You’re surely ...
There was no reticence about his fellow servants below stairs; the butler had even attempted to draw him out upon the practice of the Yard in its attitude towards ex-convicts who were trying to make good. True, he had given him evasive replies, but he could not shake off the feeling that the butl...
said Richardson, when they arrived at Marylebone police station, and as he passed the station sergeant’s table he murmured, “Don’t let him leave.” He found Inspector Foster in his room. “Back already? No luck, I suppose?” “I’ve brought Arthur Harris...
“That interview was not entirely barren, I think,” he said as they walked. “Indeed it was not. Either of those women might have been a customer of Madame Germaine and might have abstracted the bill-head of the note for one hundred thousand francs. I suppose that it will be...
Cooper scanned this gentleman with interest, for he had never had speech with him. He was a rather portly little man of Hebraic features. “This is my friend, M. Zizon,” explained Polowski. “He is one of the best-known jewellers in Bucharest; you can have the fullest confid...
He found that the seat reserved for him was placed at the back. “I thought that you would not wish to be too much in evidence,” the official explained, “but of course you can sit wherever you think it would be most useful for your purpose.” “I shoul...
“To search London for a sandy-haired young man with freckles—and that’s all we have to go upon—would be sheer lunacy.” “Couldn’t you advertise?” asked Jago hopefully. “What, and call attention to a physical defect as an inducement for a youth to com...
They were fitting the key into the door when the head of a fair-haired young woman appeared on the landing above and smiled down at them. “The people downstairs left a message last night that some gentleman from Scotland Yard wanted to see me, so I came down early on purpo...