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The Master Mystery, by Arthur B. Reeve and
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Title: The Master Mystery
Author: Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey
Release Date: July 1, 2005 [eBook #16168]
Language: English
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THE MASTER MYSTERY
Novelized by
ARTHUR B. REEVE and JOHN W. GREY
From Scenarios by Arthur B. Reeve in Collaboration with John W. Grey and C.A. Logue
Profusely Illustrated with Photographic Reproductions Taken from the Houdini Super-Serial of the Same Name. A B. A. Rolfe Production.
New York Grosset & Dunlap Publishers
Published May, 1919
CHAPTER I
Peter Brent sat nervously smoking in the library of his great house, Brent Rock.
He was a man of about forty-f