Fifty Candles (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781587154331)

DEATH IN SAN FRANCISCO . . . Suddenly from across the hall came a cry, sharp, uncanny, terrible. I ran out in the direction from which it had come and stood on the threshold of the Drew dining room. A table was set with gleaming silver and white linen, and in its center stood a cake, on which fifty absurd pink candles flickered bravely. There appeared to be no one in the room. On the other side of the table a French window stood open to the fog, and I went around to investigate. I had taken perhaps a dozen steps when I stopped, appalled. Old Drew was lying on the carpet, and one yellow lean hand, always so adept at reaching out and seizing, held a corner of the white tablecloth. There was a dark stain on the left side of his dress coat; and when I pulled the coat back, I saw on the otherwise spotless linen underneath a great red circle that grew and grew. He was quite dead. I stood erect, and for a dazed uncertain moment I stared about the room. Beside me, on the table, fifty yellow points of flame trembled like human things terrified at what they had seen.

Author: Earl Derr Biggers
ISBN-10: 1587154331
ISBN-13: 9781587154331
Publisher: Borgo Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2001
Pages: 108
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.06w x 0.28d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/01/2001 pg. 241