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Author:
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Herbert Asbury |
Publisher:
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The Modern Publishing Company, London [193?] |
Pages:
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254 |
1st Published:
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Macy-Masius (N.Y.), 1928; Brentano's (London), 1928 |
Dust Jacket by:
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G.P. Micklewright |
No.:
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680 |
Synopsis:
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An Inspector Thomas Conroy story.
“The Tick of the Clock” is a conventional police procedural,
as calmly paced and logical as the title device. Conroy is brought in to investigate the murder of a man named
Walton, who was apparently killed with a pistol while reading letters in the library of his home, on West Sixty-eighth
Street. Walton was wealthy and high-living but not much liked; there are numerous suspects. Asbury walks the reader
through the investigation, allowing us to see the evidence as Conroy does. Eventually, Conroy gathers all of the suspects
in a room, and interrogates them one at a time. In the course of the interrogation, Conroy sets up a trap that prompts
the murderer to reveal himself. (Source)
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Notes:
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Red boards with black lettering on spine.
Endpapers are advertisments for Dr. J. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne (FEP) and M.P. Malcolm Ross (REP).
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