Excerpts from the Book 'At One Thirty':

... were some people there last evening, old family friends. The police are at the house, now, he added with nervous irrelevance. Infernal nuisance, this ...
... it into his hip-pocket, and, when the Inspector reappeared, he was fingering and smelling the hangings and pillows of the large, richly-upholstered divan, ...
... nothing whatever, the Judge's tone held a hint of astonishment at the question. ^'Did you, Doris.. The girl caught her breath suddenly, ...
... this much more rigorously, if I don't. They must know where every member of this household was at every moment last night. Are your friend's rooms near ...
... never have known from her letters what misery she was enduring before I came, and she has lied to me valiantly, when I found great bruises and marks ...
... you send the butler-Dakers-to me, please.. Yes, sir.. Dakers was tardy in coming, and in the meantime Gaunt turned over in his ...
... don't keep nothin' that don't belong to me.. And what was it that you found, Katie. You did right to bring it to me. Gaunt with difficulty restrained ...
... of strife and dis-< cension from below, in spite of the fact that his room was at the top of the house and his door closed, would not have heard the revolver ...
... him last night, and thrown him out of your rooms. It was dangerous, you see. He knew too much of what had gone on the night before.. I couldn't. ...
... lie to him. You might find yourself in serious trouble.. As the maid turned, with a sigh of relief, to show him to the door, he stopped.=. Why ...
... said. I have been waiting for you nearly an hour. Have you come upon anything.. Running down a lot of false clues clearing out the underbrush, that's ...
... hours in his solitary chair before the empty hearth, musing. His thoughts could not have been altogether on the problem before him for, now and then, ...
... me, the name Gregory was merely retained to keep the title of the firm intact. I believe Mr. Gregory died many years ago.. Really, I cannot say, ...
... to the station. If I cannot get a positive description of them, I must wait until the Prinzessin Cloiilde docks here again.. He was in the habit of ...
... out of the way, it was a case of dog eat dog. They were afraid of each other but Smith had more to fear, since he was a member of the firm, while ...
... be surprised if this murder was never solved. It's happened before, you know but there's never been another case like this in the annals of the ...
... been but there were so many small articles like it scattered about on the table-top, that I presume whoever cleaned up the den after-after it was all ...
... he halted her. I wish you could tell me more about that shadow you saw, or fancied you saw, in the hall. Miss Carhart. You say it looked like ...
... overheard your husband talking to Miss Carhart. At what time was that, Mrs. Appleton.. At eleven, she returned, composedly. There was in her voice ...
... the earth like a mole for, like a mole, he was blind. He came to the castle, and felt about the dungeon, and found the strand of golden hair, clinging ...