The Secret House
by Edgar Wallace
Publisher: A. L. Burt company 1919
ISBN/ASIN: B003Y3BSKG
Number of pages: 302
Description:
A man stood irresolutely before the imposing portals of Cainbury House, a large office building let out to numerous small tenants, and harbouring, as the indicator on the tiled wall of the vestibule testified, some thirty different professions. The man was evidently poor, for his clothes were shabby and his boots were down at heel.
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