The Big Bow Mystery
One of the earliest "locked room" mysteries. All of the clues are in the story -- but you'll be surpised by the ending!
Approx. 41,587 words.
ur loudest," whispered the pale-faced woman. "You'll not wake him now."
The grey mist had followed them through the street door, and hovered about the staircase, charging the air with a moist sepulchral odour.
"Locked and bolted," muttered Grodman, shaking the door afresh.
"Burst it open," breathed the woman, trembling violently all over, and holding her hands before her as if to ward off the dreadful vision. Without another word, Grodman applied his shoulder to the door, and made a violent muscular effort. He had been an athlete in his time, and the sap was yet in him. The door creaked, little by little it began to give, the woodwork enclosing the bolt of the lock splintered, the panels bent inwards, the large upper bolt tore off its iron staple; the door flew back with a crash. Grodman rushed in.
"My God!" he cried. The woman shrieked. The sight was too terrible.
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Within a few hours the jubilant newsboys were shrieking "Horrible Suicide in Bow," and
