THE STURGIS WAGER a classic 1899 DETECTIVE romance NOVEL Book 1 edition by Edgar Morette Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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New Year's Eve 1896 in New York City
At a busy intersection of Broadway and Times Square, a cable car collision with a horse-drawn carriage ignites a MURDER INVESTIGATION that will send tremors to the great banking houses of WALL STREET!
Evil Death traps!!! Brilliant Deductions!!! A Battle of Wits between an American "Sherlock Holmes" and U.S. "Fu Manchu"
"I simply note the fact, that, so far as time is concerned, the Cab Mystery could be the sequel to the Knickerbocker Bank Mystery—that is all. Facts, my dear boy, are like words. A word is only an assemblage of meaningless letters until it becomes pregnant with sense by context. So, a fact, which, standing by itself, has no meaning, may, when correlated with other facts, become fraught with deep significance."
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THE STURGIS WAGER
by Edgar Morette
a "lost" classic of murder, adventure, detection, and suspense
Originally published in 1899, this turn-of-the-nineteenth-century anticipates the Golden-Age detectives and the pulp heroes with its rapid plot and larger-than-life characters.
On New Year's Eve 1896 in a men's club in Manhattan, the brilliant amateur detective and newspaper reporter Ralph Sturgis is challenged by the mysterious and sardonic Dr. Murdock to solve a baffling mystery of his choosing and thus disprove his contention that a hidden "master" criminal can easily baffle the so-called "master" detective of the popular press.
The case involves "shots" heard fired at a Wall Street bank after closing, but no evidence of who fired them or at what, but soon murder piles upon murder, and a quarter-million-dollar embezzlement is discovered, and a hideous secret death chamber revealed beneath the cobble-stoned streets of New York.
But don't take my word for it, here is the THRILLING first chapter
Chapter I THE CABMAN'S FARE.
New York City, New Year's Eve/Day 1897
It was bitterly cold. The keen December wind swept down the crowded thoroughfare, nipping the noses and ears of the gay pedestrians, comfortably muffled in their warm wraps.
Broadway was thronged with the usual holiday shoppers and pleasure-seekers. Cabs with their jaded steeds driven by weatherbeaten jehus, and private carriages behind well-groomed horses handled by liveried coachmen, deftly made their way through the crowds and deposited their fares at the entrances of the brightly lighted theaters or fashionable restaurants. A wizened hag, seated on the curbstone at the corner, seemed to shrink into herself with the cold as she turned the crank of her tiny barrel-organ and ground out a dismal and scarcely audible cacophony; while an anxious-eyed newsboy, not yet in his teens, shivered on the opposite side of the way, as, with tremulous lips, he solicited a purchaser of his unsold stock. One could hardly be expected to open a warm overcoat on such a night, at the risk of taking cold, for the sake of throwing a cent to an old beggar woman, or of buying a newspaper from a ragged urchin. Even the gaily decorated shop windows failed to arrest the idle passersby; for it required perpetual motion to keep the blood in circulation.
The giant policeman on the crossing, representing the majesty of the law, swayed the crowd of vehicles and pedestrians with the authoritative gestures of his ponderous hands, and gallantly escorted bands of timid women through the inextricable moving maze.
And withal, the cable cars, with their discordant clangor, rumbled rapidly to and fro, like noisy shuttles, shooting the woof of the many-hued fabric which is the life of a great city.
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This book was GREAT I hated to put in down. The newspaper reporter was great at solding mysteries. He looked for clues that no one even thought to look for. I recommend it to everyone.
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