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The Crimson Cryptogram: A Detective Story
The story revolves around Dr. Robert Ellis, a young and disillusioned physician, and his friend Harry Cass, a journalist, who find themselves embroiled in a murder case when a desperate woman named Mrs. Moxton arrives at their door, claiming her husband has been murdered.
"The Crimson Cryptogram: A Detective Story" by Fergus Hume is a detective novel. The story revolves around Dr. Robert Ellis, a young and disillusioned physician, and his friend Harry Cass, a journalist, who find themselves embroiled in a murder case when a desperate woman named Mrs. Moxton arrives at their door, claiming her husband has been murdered.
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"Poverty, naked and unconcealed! One can endure that, with some patience, as a beaten soldier in the battle of life. But genteel pauperism--the semi-poverty of the middle-class, that lives a necessary lie at the cost of incessant worry and constant defeat--there you have the true misery of life. Believe me, Cass, there is no torture like that of an ambition which cannot be attained for lack of money."
"I did not know you were ambitious, Ellis."
"Not of setting the Thames on fire. My desires are limited to a good practice, a moderate income, a home, and a wife to love me. These wishes are reasonable enough, Heaven knows, yet some cursed Fate prevents their realisation. And I have to sit down and wait; a doctor can do nothing else. I must listen with such philosophy as I have for the ring of the door bell to announce my first patient, and the ring never comes. The heart grows sick, the brain rusty, the money goes, the temper sours, and so I pass the best days of my life."
"All things come to him who knows how to wait," said Cass, knocking the ashes out of a well-smoked briar.
"And the horse is the noblest of all animals," retorted Ellis. "I never did find consolation in proverbs of that class."
Contents
- 01Chapter I
- 02A Midnight Surprise
- 03Chapter II
- 04The Writing in Blood
- 05Chapter III
- 06An Open Verdict
- 07Chapter IV
- 08The Reading of the Blood Signs
- 09Chapter V
- 10Mrs Moxton Seeks Counsel
- 11Chapter VI
- 12A Fresh Discovery
- 13Chapter VII
- 14What the Cabman Knew
- 15Chapter VIII
- 16A Music-Hall Star
- 17Chapter IX
- 18The Austrian
- 19Chapter X
- 20A Strange Denial
- 21Chapter XI
- 22A Half Confession
- 23Chapter XII
- 24Mr Busham, Solicitor
- 25Chapter XIII
- 26Mrs Moxton's Surrender
- 27Chapter XIV
- 28The Pimlico House
- 29Chapter XV
- 30What Mrs. Amber Knew
- 31Chapter XVI
- 32Another Mystery
- 33Chapter XVII
- 34A Life History
- 35Chapter XVIII
- 36What Really Happened
- 37Chapter XIX
- 38The Red Pocket-Book
- 39Chapter XX
- 40Busham at Bay
- 41Chapter XXI
- 42The Blind Girl
- 43Chapter XXII
- 44Janet's Discovery
- 45Chapter XXIII
- 46The Beginning of the End
- 47Chapter XXIV
- 48The Truth
- 49Chapter XXV
- 50A Confession
- 51Chapter XXVI
- 52The End of the Story
About this edition
- Author
- Fergus Hume
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Introductory: no background needed
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 242 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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