Quintus Oakes: a Detective Story by Charles Ross Jackson - 2012-01-10

MP3 Audio CD. Quintus Oakes: A Detective Story by Charles Ross Jackson is what the title says it is: a par excellence detective story with an ingenious and very down-to-earth way of solving the mystery.The story starts in an intriguing way, becoming only more exciting as it progresses. It all begins with a number of seemingly unrelated, but scary events and some assaults that take place at a manor house. Then comes a murder that is followed by an investigation ? the servants see elusive figures that appear, then disappear without a trace and someone is mysteriously treading the stairs, so everyone accuses supernatural forces, but Quintus Oakes, the most level-headed detective of them all is not deceived by appearances and knows that there must be a rational explanation to what is going on and he sets off to find that explanation.The approach he uses is worthy of the best detectives in literature, Sherlock Holmes being certainly the master of logic and rational thinking, but Quintus Oakes following… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Quintus Oakes: A Detective Story CHAPTER I The Rescue It was a warm summer evening; the air was stifling and still. I, Rodney Stone, attorney-at-law, left my apartment to stroll along Broadway, seeking a roof garden wherein to spend a few hours of change from the atmosphere of the pavements, and to kill the ennui that comes to all of us whom business compels to accept such circumstances. As I walked down a side street, I noticed ahead of me a colored man rush out from an apartment house, shouting something that I did not understand. His actions seemed peculiar for a moment, but a curl of smoke from one of the third-story windows made known the cause. It was fire. I found myself among the first to reach the spot. From Broadway a crowd was coming, such as collects readily under these circumstances. I was soon mingling with it, watching the police in their endeavors to rouse the tenants and to spread the alarm on all the floors. The numerous dwellers were soon rushing out, and I saw… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Quintus Oakes: A Detective Story CHAPTER I The Rescue It was a warm summer evening; the air was stifling and still. I, Rodney Stone, attorney-at-law, left my apartment to stroll along Broadway, seeking a roof garden wherein to spend a few hours of change from the atmosphere of the pavements, and to kill the ennui that comes to all of us whom business compels to accept such circumstances. As I walked down a side street, I noticed ahead of me a colored man rush out from an apartment house, shouting something that I did not understand. His actions seemed peculiar for a moment, but a curl of smoke from one of the third-story windows made known the cause. It was fire. I found myself among the first to reach the spot. From Broadway a crowd was coming, such as collects readily under these circumstances. I was soon mingling with it, watching the police in their endeavors to rouse the tenants and to spread the alarm on all the floors. The numerous dwellers were soon rushing out, and I saw… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Quintus Oakes: A Detective Story by Charles Ross Jackson is what the title says it is: a par excellence detective story with an ingenious and very down-to-earth way of solving the mystery.The story starts in an intriguing way, becoming only more exciting as it progresses. It all begins with a number of seemingly unrelated, but scary events and some assaults that take place at a manor house. Then comes a murder that is followed by an investigation ? the servants see elusive figures that appear, then disappear without a trace and someone is mysteriously treading the stairs, so everyone accuses supernatural forces, but Quintus Oakes, the most level-headed detective of them all is not deceived by appearances and knows that there must be a rational explanation to what is going on and he sets off to find that explanation.The approach he uses is worthy of the best detectives in literature, Sherlock Holmes being certainly the master of logic and rational thinking, but Quintus Oakes following… Read More

NY: G. W. Dillingham. Brown cloth with color decoration and baby blue lettering. Strong copy with no markings. Bumped and slightly nicked at the spine tips. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. . VG+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1904.

New York : G. W. Dillingham, 1904. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good.

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Paperback / softback. New.

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Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Quintus Oakes.