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The Man Who Knew

Edgar Wallace

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cupied a flat above the bank premises. From time to time he strode in, his big pipe in the corner of his mouth. The last of these occasions was when Jasper Cole had replaced the last ledger in Mr. Minute's private safe.

"Half past eleven," said the manager disapprovingly, "and you have had no dinner."

"I can afford to miss a dinner," laughed the other.

"Lucky man," said the manager.

Jasper Cole passed out into the street and called a passing taxi to the curb.

[Pg 72]

"Charing Cross Station," he said.

He dismissed the cab in the station courtyard, and after a while walked back to the Strand and hailed another.

"Victoria Dock Road," he said in a low voice.


[Pg 73]

CHAPTER V

JOHN MINUTE'S LEGACY

La Rochefoucauld has said that prudence and love are inconsistent. May Nuttall, who had never explored the philosophies of La Rochefoucauld, had nevertheless seen that quotation in the birthday book of an acquaintance, and the saying had made a great impression upon her. She was twenty-one years of age, at which age girls are most impressionable and are little influenced by the workings of pure reason. They are prepared to take their philosophies ready-made, and not disinclined to accept from others certain rigid standards by which they measure their own elastic temperaments.

Frank Merrill was at once a comfort and the cause of a certain half-ashamed resentment, since she was of the age which resents [Pg 74]dependence. The woman who spends any appreciable time in the discussion with herself as to whether she does or does not love a man can only have her doubts set at rest by the discovery of somebod

Elizabeth (Alaska) 10/20/2023
I was not well-motivated, I think. I struggled with the first half, but pushed myself through for the sake of the 1918 entry for my mysteries challenge. And then? All of sudden it became *very* interesting. That might be because finally there was a murder. I thought the solution was obvious, but I w
Rick 04/23/2020
Major characters:
John Minute, wealthy mining magante
Jasper Cole, his secretary
Frank Merrill, his nephew
May Nuttall, Frank's girlfriend
Saul Arthur Mann, The Man Who Knew
Rex Holland, a mysterious person
Henry Crawley, a.k.a. Smith, a policeman
Constable Wiseman

Locale: England

Synopsis: Wealthy John Minut
Paul 03/30/2019
It was Okayyy, I suppose. Maybe I'm getting fussy giving it only 4 stars. Wouldn't really recommend it. Won't remember it.
Old Time Tales 01/21/2019
The Man Who Didn't Know

I had a lot of fun with this one. It was a fun little mystery and the expected plot twist was neatly delivered.

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