Fifty Candles - Earl Derr Biggers
Category: Detective
Tags: Detective, Mystery
Fifty Candles Wildside Mystery Classics By: Earl Derr Biggers Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins Unabridged Audiobook Release date: 03-11-2011 Language: English Publisher: Wildside Press LLC, 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
