Bargain Counter Corpse 2 E-Book

Arthur Leo Zagat

• Herausgeber: Al-Mashreq eBookstore
• Kategorie: Krimi
• Serie: Doc. Turner Series
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 24

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Beschreibung

Bargain Counter Corpse 2 by Arthur Leo Zagat delivers a thrilling sequel packed with suspense and mystery in a bustling department store setting. When a body is discovered among the sale items at a popular store, it sparks a frenzy that sends shockwaves through the retail world. The store's management is desperate to keep the scandal under wraps, but a determined detective refuses to let the case be buried as easily as the corpse. As the investigation unfolds, dark secrets and unexpected twists emerge, revealing that this is no ordinary crime. With each clue uncovered, the stakes grow higher in a game where the price of survival is steep. Will the truth be found, or will it remain hidden behind the glamorous facade of the bargain counter?

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Bargain Counter Corpse 2

Doc. Turner Series

By: Arthur Leo Zagat

Edited by: Rafat Allam

Copyright © 2024 by Al-Mashreq Bookstore

First published in The Spider, October 1941

No part of this publication may be reproduced whole or in part in any form without the prior written permission of the author

Synopsis

Tracy's Department Store boasted it could undersell all competitors on every item—but that didn't include the corpse of the young working girl Doc Turner thought to be the keystone of a novel and horrible racket!

The Spider, October 1941, with "Bargain Counter Corpse 2"

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ANDREW TURNER awoke all at once, as an old man does, to find that his dream had become a nightmare of reality.

The desolate landscape of his dream was now the lodging house bedroom that for so many years had been to him, not home, but the place where he spent the few midnight-to-morning hours away from his ancient drugstore on Morris Street. His dream's eerie, shadowless light was now a grimy dawn seeping in to give the shabby, scant furniture oddly menacing outlines. And, impossibly gigantic in the gray luminescence, a faceless form loomed blackly over him.

Only one thing was sharp and distinct and unquestionably real—the steely glitter of the knife-blade that had pricked his throat and now hung above it, poised.

Outside the open window was the nocturnal growl of the unsleeping city, the rattle of an "El" train, a sick infant's petulant whine—and the rasp of the radio in a police prowl car, just below! But Doc Turner knew that the instant he opened his mouth to cry for help, silencing steel would slice down.

His white-haired head lay very still on its pillow, but the tobacco-stained bush of his mustache moved with a faint smile. "The pose," he said gently, "is, I confess, frightening. But what are you after?"

The intruder stirred. "What did Jennie Marshall tell you last night," the black mask whispered, "in the back of your store?"

"Nothing concerning anyone but herself." This was the exact truth. "And her young man. He is being inducted into the army day after tomorrow, and she wanted me to persuade him to marry her before he goes. But I pointed out that unless he loved her enough to marry her without persuasion, it would be wiser to wait till he comes back and see how they both feel then."

"You 'phoned someone, and she got in the booth with you. Who was it?"