The Burleigh Murders (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Burleigh Murders From the moment the newspapers carried the first announcement that there had been a murder at the summer home of Mrs. Ashley Madden, the public reaction was peculiar. Speaking roughly, there was a general air of scoffing. The great mass, to whom the name of Mrs. Ashley Madden was familiar, were inclined to look at it askance, to shrug their shoulders, and ask themselves, "What next?" Yet the noon editions of the Ridgeport papers carried the announcement quite plainly. Captain Mulvaney was forced to concede the point, as he pondered the despatch which had evidently been wired from the village of Burleigh. The Captain knew, broadly, that Burleigh was some fifty or so miles distant from Ridgeport, that it was off all the beaten highways, and that - according to newspaper statements of many months previous - it had been chosen by Mrs. Madden as the site for a summer home because of its remoteness. "What do you make of it?" Mulvaney almost snapped, as he tossed the paper across his desk towards Amor Kairns. The latter was not precisely a part of the police force of Ridgeport. He was, more nearly, an acquisition of Captain Mulvaney's, who came and went as he pleased, but who quite often had the peculiar knack of being at the right spot when crime broke out in some new guise. He was, in other words, a free-lance who placed himself occasionally at Mulvaney's disposal, and who, because of such action, had contributed greatly to the reputation which Mulvaney had acquired during recent years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.