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An acclaimed actress harbors a troubling secret and the man close to her becomes determined to uncover its source. A mysterious unstamped letter and a chain of tangible clues—photographs, a duplicate key, a trunk and an ominous voice over the wire—set off a tense investigation through hotels, old photograph galleries and shadowed city streets. Encounters with ambiguous witnesses and unexpected revelations gradually expose hidden connections and motives, forcing those involved to confront past deceptions. The narrative blends atmospheric suspense with puzzle-solving, examining identity, secrecy and the personal cost of revealing the truth.

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Title: The sinister mark

Author: Lee Thayer

Release date: October 11, 2025 [eBook #77033]

Language: English

Original publication: Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923

Credits: Charlene Taylor, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SINISTER MARK ***

THE SINISTER MARK

BY LEE THAYER

GARDEN CITY     NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1923

COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY THE FRANK A. MUNSEY COMPANY

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.

First Edition


TO
H. W. T.

IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT
OF HIS FINAL APPROVAL


CONTENTS

I. "Mary Blake"
II. An Unstamped Letter
III. Peter Clancy
IV. A Viewless Room
V. Camouflage?
VI. "My Sister, Anne——"
VII. A Splash of Blood
VIII. The Voice Over the Wire
IX. What the Cabman Knew
X. A Big Trunk
XI. Four Photographs
XII. A Signature Card
XIII. The Woman at the Pennsylvania Hotel
XIV. One Clue
XV. The Duplicate Key
XVI. Rosamond Curwood
XVII. Another Photograph
XVIII. Rosamond's Secret
XIX. In the Old Photograph Gallery
XX. Peter Clancy Changes His Plans
XXI. And Asks a Question
XXII. "On Monday—the Twenty-ninth of May——"
XXIII. A Midnight Errand
XXIV. "Hands Up!"
XXV. A High Wall
XXVI. The Woman Shultze
XXVII. 111 West Forty —— Street
XXVIII. Donald Morris Understands
XXIX. Kate Rutherford Relieves Her Mind

THE SINISTER MARK