The Project Gutenberg eBook of The sinister mark
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.)
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 |