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Loading... The Billiard-Room Mystery (1927)by Brian Flynn
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Belongs to SeriesAnthony Bathurst (1)
Set between the Wars at an English country house, of course a dead body turns up in the billiard room, and even worse, Lady Considine's pearls are missing. First in the Anthony Bathurst series. No library descriptions found. |
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"When we were called to this room at seven o'clock that morning by Marshall, the three balls were in the pocket then. I can recall them distinctly---Prescott's body was lying across the bottom of the table. He was partly on his right shoulder, and his right arm was hanging over the side---very near the pocket where I've found the I.O.U. I can remember looking at the limp arm there---and then looking into the pocket and seeing the balls. I can---" He stopped suddenly. "But there's something wrong somewhere, there's a difference---there's a---" he thrust his hands into his pockets and paced the room. When he turned in my direction again I could see that his eyes were closed. He was thinking hard. "It will come to me," he muttered. "There was the arm---there were the three balls---there was the dagger---"