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The Four-Pools Mystery

The Four-Pools Mystery

Webster, Jean

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ISBN10: 1502481189
ISBN13: 9781502481184
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 24 2014
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.30 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
It was through the Patterson-Pratt forgery case that I first made the acquaintance of Terry Patten, and at the time I should have been more than willing to forego the pleasure. Our firm rarely dealt with criminal cases, but the Patterson family were long standing clients, and they naturally turned to us when the trouble came. Ordinarily, so important a matter would have been put in the hands of one of the older men, but it happened that I was the one who had drawn up the will for Patterson Senior the night before his suicide, therefore the brunt of the work devolved upon me. The most unpleasant part of the whole affair was the notoriety. Could we have kept it from the papers, it would not have been so bad, but that was a physical impossibility; Terry Patten was on our track, and within a week he had brought down upon us every newspaper in New York. The first I ever heard of Terry, a card was sent in bearing the inscription, Mr. Terence K. Patten, and in the lower left-hand corner, of the Post-Dispatch. I shuddered as I read it. The Post-Dispatch was at that time the yellowest of the yellow journals. While I was still shuddering, Terry walked in through the door the office boy had inadvertently left open

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