The Shadow of a Hair (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Shadow of a Hair

Because of the leaden skies, night had fallen with more than its usual suddenness. Lights sprang up in the little town below, and a few minutes later more lights tried vainly to penetrate the darkness that separated the clapboard buildings on the hilltop.

In three of the four bungalows, there was the cheer ful bustle and stir of guests dressing for dinner, shrouding their evening clothes in raincoats before venturing into the storm that swept between the cottages and the central dining-hall.

In the isolated fourth bungalow, a girl in a soiled lavender tea gown bent her bright head over a bed side table. The room was dark except for the patch of light that streamed through the door opening into the living room. Her fingers groped across the wicker table top. She thought she could put her hands immediately on the little box she was seeking. I've found it, she called to the visitor she had left in the other room. A board creaked behind her. Startled, she whirled. You frightened me - I didn't hear you come in here. Her apologetic little laugh died away at the sight of the grim figure behind her. Terror stared out of her blue eyes as something slipped over her head and clung to her creamy throat. Just once she screamed, a scream that echoed through the bungalow and was lost in the storm outside.

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