| Fifty Candles Wildside Press Edition Contributor(s): Biggers, Earl Derr (Author), Betancourt, John Gregory (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1587154331 ISBN-13: 9781587154331 Publisher: Borgo Press OUR PRICE: $11.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2001 Annotation: DEATH IN SAN FRANCISCO . . . Suddenly from across the hall came a cry, sharp, uncanny, terrible. I ran out in the direction from which it had come and stood on the threshold of the Drew dining room. A table was set with gleaming silver and white linen, and in its center stood a cake, on which fifty absurd pink candles flickered bravely. There appeared to be no one in the room. On the other side of the table a French window stood open to the fog, and I went around to investigate. I had taken perhaps a dozen steps when I stopped, appalled. Old Drew was lying on the carpet, and one yellow lean hand, always so adept at reaching out and seizing, held a corner of the white tablecloth. There was a dark stain on the left side of his dress coat; and when I pulled the coat back, I saw on the otherwise spotless linen underneath a great red circle that grew and grew. He was quite dead. I stood erect, and for a dazed uncertain moment I stared about the room. Beside me, on the table, fifty yellow points of flame trembled like human things terrified at what they had seen. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Wildside Mystery Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 6.06" W x 9.04" (0.41 lbs) 108 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - West Coast - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Geographic Orientation - California |