The Postmaster's Daughter
Louis Tracy
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Description
Louis Tracy's The Postmaster's Daughter, dated 1916, lists eighteen chapters that promise a village mystery. They include The Face at the Window, P. C. Robinson Takes a Line, and Scotland Yard Takes a Hand. The Case Against Grant and The Truth at Last come later. Chapter I opens on John Menzies Grant, who has breakfasted, filled his pipe, and strolled bare-headed into his garden.
The month is June, the glorious rose-month of the last summer before war-clouds darkened England's sky. The narrator notes that thousands of men were strolling into thousands of gardens at nine that morning. Few men favoured with youth, health, leisure, and money looked as perplexed as Grant. His actions spoke as plainly as words. A spacious French window cut into an old-fashioned room stands open behind him to the flower-scented breeze.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Louis Tracy |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 379 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |