Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin), 1880-1936 / 2008-06-09 00:00:00
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THE FILM MYSTERY
BY
ARTHUR B. REEVE
AUTHOR OF
"The Soul Scar" "The Adventuress" and Other Craig Kennedy
Scientific Detective Stories
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. A CAMERA CRIME
II. THE TINY SCRATCH
III. TANGLED MOTIVES
IV. THE FATAL SCRIPT
V. AN EMOTIONAL MAZE
VI. THE FIRST CLUB
VII. ENID FAYE
VIII. LAWRENCE MILLARD
IX. WHITE-LIGHT SHADOWS
X. CHEMICAL RESEARCH
XI. FORESTALLED
XII. EMERY PHELPS
XIII. MARILYN LORING
XIV. ANOTHER CLUE
XV. I BECOME A DETECTIVE
XVI. ENID ASSISTS
XVII. AN APPEAL
XVIII. THE ANTIVENIN
XIX. AROUND THE CIRCLE
XX. THE BANQUET SCENE
XXI. MERLE SHIRLEY OVERACTS
XXII. THE STEM
XXIII. BOTULIN TOXIN
XXIV. THE INVISIBLE MENACE
XXV. ITCHING SALVE
XXVI. A CIGARETTE CASE
XXVII. THE FILM FIRE
XXVIII. THE PHOSPHORUS BOMB
XXIX. MICROSCOPIC EVIDENCE
XXX. THE BALLROOM SCENE
XXXI. PHYSOSTIGMIN
XXXII. CAMERA EVIDENCE
THE FILM MYSTERY
I
A CAMERA CRIME
"Camera!"
Kennedy and I had been hastily summoned from his laboratory in
the city by District-Attorney Mackay, and now stood in the
luxurious, ornate library in the country home of Emery Phelps,
the banker, at Tarrytown.
"Camera!--you know the call when the director is ready to shoot a
scene of a picture?--well--at the moment it was given and the
first and second camera men began to grind--she crumpled--sank to
the floor--unconscious!"
Hot and excited, Mackay endeavored to reenact his case for us
with all the histrionic ability of a popular prosecutor before a
jury.
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