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The Angel of Terror, by Edgar Wallace
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Title: The Angel of Terror
Author: Edgar Wallace
Release Date: May 19, 2007 [EBook #21530]
Language: English
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THE ANGEL OF TERROR
The characters in this book are entirely imaginary, and have no relation to any living person.
To F.L.S. A MAN OF LAW
First Printed, May, 1922
32nd Edition, September, 1934
Made and Printed in Great Britain for Hodder and Stoughton Limited, by Wyman & Sons Ltd., London, Reading and Fakenham
Chapter I
The hush of the court, which had been broken when the foreman of the jury returned their verdict, was intensified as the Judge, with a quick glance over his pince-nez at the tall prisoner, marshalled his papers with the precision and method which old men display in tense moments such as these. He gathered them together, white paper and blue and buff and stacked them in a neat heap on a tiny ledge to the left of his desk. Then he took his pen and wrote a few words on a printed paper before him.<