Fifty Candles - Earl Derr Biggers

Written by Earl Derr Biggers
Read by Kiff Van den Heuvel
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Fifty Candles
Wildside Mystery Classics
By: Earl Derr Biggers
Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel
Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 03-11-2011
Language: English
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

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.”

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