Out of the Darkness - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III SUICIDE OB MURDER I WAS out of bed in a moment, and getting into my clothes as rapidly as I could. What Bartley had told me seemed almost incredible. Why, only a few hours before we had seen and talked with Slyke. He had not acted like a man in trouble, yet he had killed himself! I could tell by his grave manner that Bartley thought this a very serious matter. Fully dressed, I followed him out onto the lawn which was still wet with the morning dew. We crossed the field and went through the woods in silence. At last I ventured to ask what it was that he had heard regarding Slyke's death. "About five minutes before I woke you, King 'phoned to say that he had been called to Slyke's house--that he was dead. He was told that he had committed suicide. He asked us to join him in front of the house as soon as possible." The woods were filled with the songs of birds greeting the new day, and this, with the peacefulness of the morning, contrasted so strongly with the horror we were expecting to find when we reached Slyke's house, that I became greatly depressed. "Why should he have killed himself?" I asked. "He did not look to me like a man who had nerve enough for that." In a moody tone Bartley replied, "I don't think he did," and left me to puzzle out his meaning. When we reached the house there was no outward evidence that anything unusual had taken place. As we approached, I noticed at the back of the house a white curtain napping back and forth in an open window of the tower. Signs of life there were none. Doctor King's car was coming up the drive as we neared the front of the house. With him was a short, red-faced Irishman in police uniform, whom he introduced, a moment later, as Roche, the chief of the local police force. He was one of those talk...
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About the Author:
Charles J. Dutton (1888-1964) was an American writer of mysteries. He was educated at Brown University and later studied at Albany Law School and the Defiance Theological Seminary. After graduation he worked for a while as a newspaper columnist. He wrote numerous works of fiction that were published in magazines both in the U.S. and Great Britain. In the early 1930’s he moved to Des Moines, Iowa where he assumed the post of minister for the First Unitarian Church. He wrote some fifteen mystery novels. Appearing in nine of these was the private detective John Bartley. Bartley was followed by Professor Harley Manners, a criminal psychologist who was featured in six novels. The two characters overlap in the book Streaked With Crimson. One of the things that set Dutton apart from other mystery writers of the period was his interest in the psychology of the criminal mind. He was also fascinated by old books and ancient history, subjects which play parts in a number of his novels.
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1151031356
- ISBN 13 9781151031358
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages58
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